Toyota Motorsport announces Intel sponsorship renewal
Toyota Motorsport GmbH has today used the opportunity of
its pre-season event at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing France
factory in Valenciennes, France to announce a renewal and
upgrade to the existing partnership with Intel Corporation.
Intel has been an official partner of the Panasonic Toyota
Racing Formula 1 team since January 2004 and will continue
to play an integral role in development of the team's race
cars throughout 2006 and beyond as Preferred Technology Sponsor.
This extended collaboration will see Intel provide the team
with high-speed, low-cost enterprise and mobility systems
based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and Intel®
Centrino® mobile technology.
The extended partnership will see the recently unveiled and
brand-new Intel corporate logo appear on the rear wing and
nose cone of the Panasonic Toyota Racing TF106 (and latterly
TF106B) race car with immediate effect.
Since the partnership began precisely two years ago, the
Panasonic Toyota Racing team has benefited significantly by
expediting its product development cycle using an Itanium
2-based high performance computing cluster that increased
the speed of calculation by up to four times and offered the
team's engineers a more accurate and cost-effective understanding
of car designs.
"We are proud to continue our mutually beneficial partnership
with Intel Corporation," commented Toyota Motorsport
President John Howett. "It is a pleasure to work with
such a globally recognised and successful brand. Whilst our
relationship is focused primarily on the IT side, Toyota and
Intel are two leading brands and both strive to extract maximum
benefit from the global stage of Formula 1."
"Intel's technology was a key enabler of our success
in 2005," added Howett. "Our Itanium 2-based servers
have significantly sped up our simulation capability while
improving the simulation accuracy. Toyota will continue to
take advantage of Intel's unparalleled performance to develop
an edge in highly competitive world of Formula 1."
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