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Newisys, a Server and Storage company with expertise in glue-chips for Opterons, based in Austin, Texas, was co-founded by Claymon A Cipione (who was later AMD CIO from 2005-2008) and Phil Hester (who later was AMD's CTO from 2005 till 2008) in 2000, and was acquired in 2004 by manufacturer Sanmina-SCI. In 2006, the company acquired the "bloc" product division of Adaptec (essentially the products that weren't Snap or HBAs), expanding the storage offering to rack-mount JBOD and RAID systems.
In May 2007, the Server portion of the company was shut down, leaving Storage as the main focus.
Now owned by Sanmina (formerly known as Sanmina-SCI), and located in the flood plain of Colorado Springs. Returned to the Server market in 2013 by adding Intel based servers into their existing storage products, somewhat successfully.