Dawning Information Industry Corp Ltd., a domestic server manufacturer, has succeeded in developing eight-way dual-core servers independently.

This indicates that China's server manufacturer is able to produce two-way, four-way and eight-way dual-core products, making domestic servers enter the historic transition from single-core platform to dual-core platform. It also signifies that China's server industry is heading for the leading role in the international market.

An eight-way server refers to eight CPUs operating simultaneously in one computer. China had always been drawing a blank in terms of eight-way servers as high-end servers.

On the other hand, "dual-core" means one chip contains two CPU cores, which will visibly enhance functions of the operating system and increase the operation frequency as well as the performance to power ratio.

"A computer with eight CPUs and each chip with two cores, namely, one computer can provide operation capacity of 16 CPUs," said Li Jun, president of Dawning Information Industry Corp Ltd.

After US's AMD's dual-core processors were introduced in April, Dawning simultaneously launched 10 types of dual-core servers ranging from two-way to eight-way for different needs into the global market.

As a famous domestic server brand, Dawning has gradually familiarized itself in recent years. Following its cooperation with AMD to take the lead to introduce 64-bit servers compatible to the 32-bit ones in 2003, it successfully developed and applied Dawning 4000A supercomputer cluster in 2004, which is currently the fastest in China.

(chinanews May 19, 2005)