The HP sx2000 chipset is Hewlett-Packard's new enterprise systems chipset designed to provide scalability, reliability, manageability and performance to meet demanding server needs. The chipset supports the new dual-core Intel Itanium 2 and Intel Itanium 2 9M processors, and allows HP Itanium 2 processors and PA-8900 RISC processors to concurrently operate in HP Integrity Superdome partitions. This provides flexibility and maximizes return on investment. The sx2000 chipset delivers key benefits for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers in areas like performance, price/performance, reliability and availability, virtualization and management capabilities, and investment protection.