Newisys was an American technology company. At various times it sold computers for

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s (known as servers), and

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products. It operated as a subsidiary of

Sanmina Corporation Sanmina Corporation is an American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in communications and computer hardware fields. The firm has nearly 80 manufac ...

since 2004.

History

Newisys was founded in July 2000 by Claymon A. Cipione and Phillip Doyce Hester, both from IBM. It was originally based in

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. By the end of 2000, almost $28 million in

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funding was obtained from

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, and

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(AMD). By 2002, they gave demonstrations of server using

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AMD processors. Another round of about $23 million funding was announced in November 2002, increased to $25 million in February 2003. In July 2003,

Sanmina-SCI Sanmina Corporation is an American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in communications and computer hardware fields. The firm has nearly 80 manufa ...

(which had been a manufacturing partner) announced it would acquire Newisys for an undisclosed amount. Newisys became an

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for Sanminia. In 2005, Hester left to become the chief technical officer of AMD until 2008, and Cipione also left to join AMD to become chief information officer. In August 2005, a

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server product called the NA-1400 was announced, although shipments were reported to be delayed. It used an

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80219 processor from

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. In November 2005, Newisys announced an

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call the AMD Horus, which allowed servers to be built with large numbers of AMD

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processors. In January 2006, the company acquired the

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division of

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, located in

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. In May 2007, the server portion of the company was shut down, leaving storage (developed in Colorado) as the main focus. Newisys returned to the server market in 2013 by adding Intel based servers into their storage products.

References

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