Earlier this year, in a move that shouldn't have surprised anyone but did, Dell Inc bought the high performance PC builder Alienware.

Hewlett-Packard Development Company has recently followed suit by acquiring HPC builder VoodooPC. Just like Dell, HP are saying they're going to keep VoodooPC just the way it is, which is basically saying "We couldn't have done better than them, so instead, we're just going to buy them."

X-bit labs reports.