HP touts advantages of Itanium 2
Source: CNet News
Hewlett-Packard formally detailed its plans for the Itanium 2 processor on Monday, a key step in HP's strategy to take on IBM and Sun.
HP, which co-designed the chip, announced a wide variety of Itanium 2 products, including lower-end two- and four-processor systems that will ship in August, options to upgrade existing servers with the new chip, and eventually a mammoth machine with 128 Itanium processors. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company also released benchmarks touting the price/performance advantages of the new chip, which analysts say back up some of the promises made by Intel and HP about the chip.
"Itanium has now crossed the threshold to compete on par and in some cases to compete with an advantage," said Giga Information Group analyst Brad Day.
