Baidu and Intel Announced All-round Cooperation
2006年4月13日 - 5:30PM
PRニュース・ワイアー (英語)
BEIJING, April 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 2006-Intel China Ltd., a
subsidiary of Intel Corporation, the world leader in silicon
innovation, and Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for
cooperation in the development of Internet search and related
applications in China. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041011/BAIDULOGO ) According
to the MOU, the two parties will cooperate in advancing Internet
search applications for laptops, handsets and PC in the digital
home environment, coupling Intel's server platform with Baidu's
backend search systems to achieve optimized performance and
operational stability. 'Baidu is committed to providing the best
way for people to find information. In addition to PCs, our users
will soon be able to access Baidu search services on their handsets
and home devices,' Said Jerry Liu, CTO of Baidu. 'Intel is the
global leader in silicon technology and has played a critical role
in enhancing Internet user experience. We are pleased to join hands
with Intel in making Internet search more convenient and fun for
people on their wireless devices and home appliances.' The two
parties will rely on their respective strengths in technology to
develop optimized Baidu search applications for Intel platforms,
and facilitate implementation on PC, laptops, handsets and home
appliances. Intel is also Baidu's backend server platform provider.
'A high performance, high stable and high scalable server platform
is very important to Baidu's powerful search engine system. Intel
has been a reliable long-term provider and partner,' said Jerry
Liu. 'Baidu is the most frequently used search engine in China with
an enormous user base. Its high traffic volume requires the highest
standard of performance and stability in its server platform. Intel
is pleased to work together with Baidu to provide optimized search
performance and exciting search experience to end users,' said
Thomas M. Kilroy, Vice President of Intel Corporation and General
Manager of Digital Enterprise Group, 'With regard to server
platform, 80% of the current enterprise servers are all based on
Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor or Intel(R)Xeon(R) processor. The
cost- effective and innovative server platform of Intel will surely
provide powerful backend support for hundreds of million users of
Baidu.' About Baidu Baidu.com, Inc. is the leading Chinese language
Internet search provider. As a technology-based media company,
Baidu aims to provide the best way for people to find information.
In addition to serving individual Internet search users, Baidu
provides an effective platform for businesses to reach potential
customers. Baidu's ADSs, each of which represents one Class A
ordinary share, currently trade on the NASDAQ Global Market under
the symbol 'BIDU'. About Intel Intel, the world leader in silicon
innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to
continually advance how people work and live. Additional
information about Intel is available at
http://www.intel.com/pressroom . For more information, please
contact: Cynthia He Baidu.com, Inc. Tel: +86-10-8262-1188 Email:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041011/BAIDULOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Baidu.com, Inc. CONTACT:
Cynthia He of Baidu.com, Inc., +86-10-8262-1188, or Web site:
http://www.baidu.com/
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