[PR] Leadtek Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement with NextIO to Provide GPU I/O Consolidation Technology in Asia Pacific

Taipei, Taiwan- October 26, 2010 –Leadtek Research Inc., known globally for extreme visual graphics technology development, is pleased to announce a strategic distribution agreement with NextIO to be its exclusive supplier in the Asia Pacific reseller market, ensuring Leadtek customers will have direct access to the best NextIO I/O consolidation solutions experience possible. NextIO, the premier provider of next-generation I/O consolidation solutions, offers services and consult supported by specialists. Leadtek extends its offering with the distribution of vCORE™ Express in the Asia Pacific market, including Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, India, China, Australia and New Zealand. vCORE Express is available to order immediately.

NextIO’s vCORE product family offers record-setting GPUs for both compute-intensive and data visualization requirements. vCORE Express enhances NextIO’s GPU consolidation product portfolio by introducing a simple yet extremely powerful solution for workstation and small cluster compute applications. Ideally suited for customers with a low number of job counts, low to medium GPU counts, or a combination of both, vCORE Express enables enterprise customers to easily deploy and seamlessly manage a consolidated GPU solution in a rack environment.

vCORE Express is designed especially for parallel computing applications using NVIDIA Tesla Series GPUs in cluster and datacenter deployments. With four massively parallel CUDA-enabled GPUs in a 1U system product, vCORE Express brings economies of scale to GPU customers by delivering the same performance of a traditional CPU-based cluster – all at 10 percent of the cost and five percent of the power consumption.

“Leadtek is one of the largest and most widely-respected distributors of reliable and high-performance technology solutions. Our partnership with them solidifies our complete coverage of leading I/O consolidation solutions to Asia Pacific customers,” said Kerry Reid, vice president, worldwide channel sales and marketing.

“We are pleased to partner with NextIO as the sole distributor of NextIO vCORE Express, the highest-performing GPU consolidation solution for workstation and small data center computing, to our Asia Pacific customers,” said K.S. Lu, CEO, Leadtek “NextIO’s vCORE Express will now allow us to provide an upgrade path for Tesla S-Series users who desire an upgrade without re-racking.”