And as expected, the arrival of Alpha products at Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA will at the same time signal the beginning of the demise of the Italian’s OEM relationship with Pyramid Technology Corp, an important source of revenue for the Mountain View, California-based firm. Olivetti sells Pyramid’s multiprocessing MIPS Technology Inc RISC-based boxes under its own name: executive vice-president Lucio Pinto confirmed that Olivetti will stop buying Pyramid boxes in around a year’s time, when there is to be a transition from Pyramid to Alpha.