In Summary

  • Hewlett-Packard's chipset is set apart from other systems in that it works with the only enterprise-class version of UNIX available with the Intel Itanium processor family, HP-UX.

  • Also, this is the first chipset to support a 64-bit processor while at the same time offering high bandwidth and low latency at a volume market price.

  • Hewlett-Packard's Scalable Processor Chipset zx1 is the center of next generation Intel Itanium processor workstations and servers with up to 4-way multiprocessing.

  • HP's next generation Itanium-based workstations and servers are targeted at performance hungry markets—such as mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), digital content creation (DCC), desktop computer-aided engineering (CAE), simulation/visualization, ...

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