Itanium Rising: Breaking Through Moore's Second Law of Computing Power

Chapter 1. Why Itanium Processors? Benefits of the New Processor Family

“The best, simplest way to describe the 'Mission Statement' for the Itanium family of microprocessors is: Creation of an architecture that can address future business needs with the best price-performance and flexibility.”

—HP/Intel design team

In This Chapter:

• The Itanium architecture 'Mission Statement'

• The Itanium Processor Family

• Benefits of Itanium processors for different platforms

• Handling Legacy Software, Hardware, and Data

• Reasons for Itanium Processor Performance Value

• Itanium Processor Family in the Enterprise Environment

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