Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday announced an agreement with Intel Corp under which the two will develop a chip set designed specifically for the HP 700/RX family of Intel 80960 RISC processor-based X Window System stations. The resulting devices will be used with Intel’s 80960 Cx series of superscalar microprocessors to provide a complete building block chip set to reduce chip count by integrating most of the logic functions surrounding the CPU, which should lead to increased reliability and performance, and reduced board space requirements and cost. The HP 700/RX stations are claimed to deliver performance of up to 90,000 Xstones, and to be the most powerful X-stations available. The companies gave no indication of when the sets will be ready, but Hewlett claims that the 700/RXs used with its HP 9000 Series 700s already offer unrivalled price-performance.
