Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday will announce two server components that will vastly increase the power of the company's Itanium servers, bringing them to parity with the machines using processors of the company's own design.
HP will announce at the Intel Developer Forum the sx1000 chipset, which will let HP build machines with eight to 64 Itanium processors. It also will announce a packaging technology called mx2 that will let the company plug two Itaniums into a single socket, giving a powerful upgrade option and enabling mammoth machines with as many as 128 processors.
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