Wave Issue 0509 3/4/05 Article 6-01

***Hitachi First to Develop Intel Itanium 2 Processor Chipsets
Supporting FSB Speeds of 667MHz and Hitachi's Virtualization
Feature With Intel Virtualization Technology

SAN FRANCISCO
March 1, 2005

Hitachi, Ltd. has announced the development and operational
verification of the world's first chipset supporting FSB
(Front Side Bus) speeds of 667MHz for the Intel Itanium 2
Processor. In addition, the development also employs Hitachi's
virtualization feature with Intel Virtualization Technology.
The virtualization feature was demonstrated using the next
generation Intel Itanium 2 Processor. Evaluation and
verification of these new features and products continue co-
jointly with Intel Corporation.

Highlights of the implementation are:

1. Development of the first chipset supporting 667MHz FSB
by Hitachi

Development of this chipset was based on many years of
experience and knowledge acquired from high speed logic
and PCB (Printed Circuit Board) packaging designs for
Hitachi's mainframe products.

The FSB achieves SPECCPU2000 Benchmark improvements of
15% and STREAM Benchmark improvements of 40% due to
higher speeds realized. Tasks requiring large memory
support such as scientific calculations and large
databases can capitalize on the performance and high
processing power of the Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 Processor.

2. Development of Hitachi's virtualization feature with
Intel Virtualization Technology

Server virtualization development was achieved with
Intel Virtualization Technology and Hitachi
virtualization feature. This feature was based on
Hitachi's integrated mainframe virtualization software
technology and the feature was tested co-jointly with
Intel Corporation. Multiple logical partitioning based on
the virtualization of hardware resources without any
guest software modification provides a flexible and
efficient server environment.

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