Intel Corp and Unisys Corp are this week expected to outline the bones of a new strategic alliance that will lead to the creation of a new breed of commercial systems for delivery in 12 to 18 months. Our sister paper Unigram.X reports that as well as designing the planned boxes – parallel processors combining multiple CPUs – the two will also team on development of code for the Pentium architecture. The firms stress that their plans do not amount to a product announcement as such, but are keen to talk up the fact that it will be Intel’s first agreement of this kind with a hardware vendor and say that it is specifically a Unix initiative. The alliance follows on from an existing relationship with Intel which saw Unisys announce a range of Pentium-ready systems earlier this year.
