HP has introduced two servers and announced a refresh of its entire Integrity server line with the first dual-core Itanium processor, a chip that promises better performance, improved energy efficiency and advanced features such as hardware-based virtualization.
In addition to updating its existing systems, HP is announcing two new servers: the 7U rx6600, with up to four dual-core Itanium processors, and the 4U rx3600, with up to two dual-core Itanium processors.
The servers include HP’s zx2 chipset, which enables the dual-core processors to provide twice the performance while reducing