HP has taken the use of high-end Itanium server chip to replace its own PA-RISC chips, "long march" of the last step.
IDG, HP Itanium chip with its NonStop family of servers for the "modernization", making it all the server products are dancing, "Itanium core." Itanium chips to improve the performance NonStop family of servers has doubled.
HP also introduced the PA-8900 chip configuration Unix servers. Compared with the PA-8800, PA-8900's performance increase by 15%. Steering HP Itanium server chip will help simplify the development plan, taking into account the HP server and storage group facing profit pressure, which is very important.
In the server market, Hewlett-Packard in the high-and low-end IBM and Dell were facing stiff competition, but the first quarter of this year increased its market share. Future processors based on HP's Itanium and x86 chip will be.
PA end of the era
Hewlett-Packard introduced the PA in 1986 series chips, and now, PA series chips have come to an end. "Microprocessor Report" editor, analyst Krewell said, PA-8900 chip is already a Masterpiece PA series chips.
In the HP PA chips to an end, the current market, there are two kinds of in the "active" in the RISC chips: IBM's Power, Sun and Fujitsu's Sparc.