ESI and Intel collaborate on development

ESI Group, a specialist in physics-based simulation software, and Intel, the leading chip maker, have announced that they will jointly develop ESI Group products and systems.

ESI Group, a specialist in physics-based simulation software, and Intel, the leading chip maker, have announced that they will jointly develop ESI Group solutions.

They will use Intel Xeon Processors and Intel Itanium Processors, which offer technological improvements such as Multi Core technology using Intel Software Tools (including a compilers' library).

"As part of our research to better meet our customers' expectations and our goal to offer additional value, this partnership with Intel will create synergies by taking advantage of Intel's leading technologies combined with ESI Group's state-of-the-art software architecture.

This agreement opens the door to real-time physics-based simulation," said Vincent Chaillou, president and chief operating officer, Product Operations, at ESI Group.

"We are pleased that ESI Group used our tools, such as Intel Fortran Compilers, to optimise PAM-CRASH and PAM-STAMP 2005 and to take advantage of the latest capabilities, such as dual-core and 64 bits from Intel Xeon 5100 series or Itanium processors," explained Christian Morales, vice president, EMEA Sales and Marketing Group general manager, at Intel.

As a result of this collaboration, both companies will undertake worldwide technical and marketing efforts in order to identify and share the optimisation of computational resources.

In addition, the two companies will strengthen their marketing activities through joint seminars, road shows, events and enhanced communication to better meet customers' requirements.

This partnership will enable ESI's customers to use solutions offering enhanced performance, while benefiting from Intel's state-of-the-art technology, and will accelerate the adoption of Intel technologies within ESI's product line.

* About ESI Group - ESI Group is a pioneer and world-leading supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials.

ESI Group has developed an entire suite of coherent, industry-oriented applications to simulate a product's behaviour realistically during testing, to fine-tune the manufacturing processes in accordance with the desired product performance, and to evaluate the environment's impact on product usage.

ESI Group's products, which have a proven track record in manufacturing and have been combined in multi-trade value chains, represent a unique collaborative, virtual engineering solution, known as the Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous manner.

By drastically reducing costs and development lead times, VTOS solutions offer major competitive advantages and make it possible to eliminate gradually the need for physical prototypes.

This integrated protocol allows all the company's solutions to work with each other and with applications developed by independent software vendors.

By significantly reducing costs and development lead times and enabling product/process synergies, VTOS solutions progressively eliminate the need for physical prototypes during product development, thus offering major competitive advantages.

ESI Group is listed on the Eurolist compartment C of Euronext Paris, and generated sales of EUR 62.2 million in 2005.

The company employs almost 500 high-level specialists worldwide, and covers more than 30 countries.

Virtual Try-Out Space and VTOS are registered trademarks of ESI Group.

All other products, names and companies mentioned in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

* About Intel Corporation - Intel, a leading company in silicon innovation, was established in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products and launched the world's first microprocessor in 1971.

Today Intel is both the world's largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products.

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