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The PA-7300LC: The First System on a Chip
White Paper HP's PA-RISC processor family currently features two "streams" of CPU development. The high-end stream, which includes the PA-7200 and PA-8000 chips, is optimized for very high performance, highly expandable power desktops and servers. [03 Jul 2008]
Quantifying the Total Cost of Upgrading HP-UX Environments From HP 9000 Servers to HP Integrity Servers
White Paper Several years ago HP made a strategic decision to consolidate its high performance server product line by replacing servers based on PA-RISC and Alpha chips with servers based on Intel's Itanium processor. [15 Feb 2008]
The Benefits of Using HP Integrity Servers to Consolidate HP 9000 Servers
White Paper Several years ago HP made a strategic decision to consolidate its high performance server product line by replacing servers based on PA-RISC and Alpha chips with HP Integrity servers (which are based on Intel's Itanium processor). [15 Feb 2008]
Big Blue gets bigger
News Overall, x86 server sales grew 18.3 per cent to $5.4bn, the third quarter in a row that they've been greater than sales of servers using reduced instruction set computing, or RISC, chips such as IBM's Power, Sun's UltraSparc and HP's PA-RISC. [24 Nov 2004]
IBM lines up big daddies of Unix servers
News HP followed suit with its 64-processor Superdome models, which initially used the company's own PA-RISC chips but which now are also available with Intel's Itanium. The p5-590 has 16 Power5 chips and 32 cores, while the p5-595 has 32 Power5 chips... [15 Oct 2004]
Sun readies server software for rivals' OSes
News The HP-UX version of JES is only for servers using HP's PA-RISC processor, which over a period of years is being replaced by Intel's Itanium. The company now is certifying its servers for Windows; aggressively pushing Solaris on x86 chips such as... [27 Jul 2004]
Sun Solaris for Power and Itanium - coming soon?
News DEC is gone, HP-UX is going away, PA-RISC is gone," he said, referring to Digital Equipment Corp. Sun has been working to resurrect a version of Solaris for x86 chips such as Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron and Intel's Xeon. [21 Jul 2004]
IBM's Unix power play - Power5 launches
News Its competitors are at a bit of an ebb because of their transitional issues," Eunice said, referring to Sun's embrace of Fujitsu's high-end Sparc64 processor and HP's switch from its PA-RISC chips to Intel's Itanium. [13 Jul 2004]
Move to Madison with caution, analyst warns
News HP, co-creator of the Itanium, is using it to gradually replace its own PA-RISC processor. Those looking to Hewlett-Packard's announcement of the first version of the HP-UX operating system for Itanium 2 should also be aware that not all HP-UX... [21 Jul 2003]
Third time lucky? Intel unveils latest Itanium
Comment IBM and Sun's RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chips are 64-bit models that can accommodate far more memory than 32-bit designs such as Intel's Xeon and Pentium. These RISC chips power expensive servers but require their own distinct software. [30 Jun 2003]
HP revs up Itanium ahead of Madison launch
News HP has already said it will come out with a version of its Superdome server, originally equipped with HP's PA-RISC chip, which is capable of holding 64, and later 128, Intel Itanium 2 chips. Additionally, HP said the Chrysler Group, a division of... [20 May 2003]
HP launches cheapo Unix server
News The processors in the new servers can be partitioned, or divided, so the hardware is able to run different applications and operating systems and can accommodate other PA-RISC or Itanium chips. The new Unix/RISC servers - 2505, 5405 and 7405 models... [03 Sep 2002]
Analyst questions Sun's chip strategy
News Ingle said it was "scary" that many competing chips had been scrapped, including PA RISC, Alpha and MIPS leaving Itanium and Sun's Ultrasparc to battle it out. Sun Microsystems is not looking far enough ahead in terms of facing the threat from... [26 Sep 2001]
HP comes second in server race
News The server runs the HP-UX operating system - HP's version of Unix - on the company's proprietary PA-RISC 8700 microprocessors. Last week, IBM set the pace by unveiling its new mid-range offering, the p660, which runs on eight proprietary IBM chips. [18 Sep 2001]
HP becomes Intel ally
News HP primarily markets servers based on its PA-RISC chips, but the company plans to migrate to the Itanium platform over the next couple of years. The group estimated around 100 engineers will be needed to work on technology for Itanium - the 64-bit... [14 Sep 2001]
