Diversified Technology, Inc. was a
computer hardware
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manufacturing company. Based in
Ridgeland, Mississippi
Ridgeland is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 24,340 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Jackson metropolitan area.
History
In 1805, the Choctaw Indian Agency, headed by Silas Dinsmoor, was located ...
, the company, which was a subsidiary of
Ergon, Inc., was formed in 1971. In 1987, Diversified Technology released the first
IBM-compatible single-board computer
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for a passive
ISA backplane. Diversified was also the first to introduce an
ATCA- and
InfiniBand
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-based
blade
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network switch
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, introduced in
Intel Xeon
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and
AMD
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Opteron
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variants in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
Diversified Technology ceased operations in 2013.
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