In this specific TPC-C benchmark, the NEC Express5800/1320Xf achieved 1,245,516 tpmC (transactions per minute) and a price per performance of $4.57/tpmC, demonstrating the power of a NEC solution running 16 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processors, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 operating system.

"The latest TPC-C result proves that NEC's Dual-Core Itanium-based enterprise servers can meet increasing performance demands and application needs in large-scale database systems", stated Mike Mitsch, general manager, Enterprise Server Division of NEC Corporation of America. "NEC is proud to offer exceptional performance and availability for on-line transaction processing through NEC's Exprses5800/1000 series servers and D-Series storage arrays."

Developed for over ten years and leveraging NEC's outstanding supercomputer and mainframe technology, NEC Express5800/1000 series servers meet mission critical business needs for the enterprise. The NEC Express5800/1320Xf is a third-generation NEC Express5800/1000 series Intel Itanium processors server product incorporating NEC's innovative A3 (A cubed) chipset. NEC's A3 chipset contributes to the server's outstanding reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) and performance.