Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Wednesday November 05 2003 @ 10:26AM EST
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company already sells its top-end Superdome with as many as 64 Itaniums, as well as two- and four-processor models. But the release of the new eight-processor Integrity rx7620 and 16-processor rx8620 will help HP shore up the midrange products, where the company historically has been strong.
HP is the biggest backer of the Itanium line, which it began designing in 1988. Ten years ago, it signed a deal under which Intel took over the design and built the chips itself. The company is in the process of trying to switch its Unix customers from systems based on HP's PA-RISC processor to those using the Itanium, which can run Windows and Linux as well as the HP-UX version of Unix.
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