HP released a new module for the company's high-end servers that will allow business consumers to insert two Itanium 2 processors into one socket. HP plans to increase the performance while being cost-effective to it's enterprise level consumers.

This innovative module is named as the MX2, which allows two Itanium 2 chips to be inserted into a single socket. This delivers up to 35% lower acquisition costs than the competitive IBM servers.

HP's main goal is to compete with IBM at this point, hence the release of MX2. This module will allow two Itanium 2 processors to share the same system bus. While it drives the costs of HP systems down with increase in performance against IBM's dual-core processor based servers and systems, no official performance comparisons were noted at press time.

The MX2 allows flexibility, cost-effectiveness, performance enhancement, and investment protection on HP Integrity servers. HP's consumers will be able to get higher data throughputs with this small upgrade.

The prices were not available for this module at the press time.

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