The rise of the digital services economy, often described as the 'Internet Plus' era in China, has resulted in tremendous growth of data centers and a diversification and proliferation of workloads. Intel serves this growing data center market in a variety of ways with the industry-leading Intel Xeon processors and other silicon components.

This includes collaborating with companies that combine our standard Intel processors with their own innovations to build unique solutions that address specific workloads and technology requirements.

TU is a leading research institution, with world-class capabilities in reconfigurable computing. Through our collaboration, TU will develop a reconfigurable computing processor (RCP) module and associated system software that will work with a standard Intel Xeon microprocessor to add capabilities that address specific local requirements.

Montage Technology will commercialize the innovative new products that use Intel Xeon processors and TU's RCP and deliver them to the Chinese market in 2017. See schematic below.

Intel believe this new collaboration is a win-win as it enables TU and Montage to innovate alongside standard Intel Xeon processors to create new and compelling indigenous products while preserving the respective intellectual property ownership of all parties.