Diversified Technology

Diversified Technology, Inc. was a computer hardware manufacturing company. Based in Ridgeland, Mississippi, the company, which was a subsidiary of Ergon, Inc., was formed in 1971. In 1987, Diversified Technology released the first IBM [PC compatible|IBM-compatible] single-board computer for a passive Industry [Standard Architecture|ISA] backplane. Diversified was also the first to introduce an ATCA- and InfiniBand-based blade network switch, introduced in Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron variants in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
Diversified Technology ceased operations in 2013.