In Summary
The Itanium architecture was developed to meet and exceed future performance and growth needs of enterprise business, technical, and scientific users with greater flexibility and future headroom. The idea was to create an architecture capable of greater speed and also unbeatable price-performance.
The Intel Itanium processor is faster than most of the present day competition. And, with future compiler improvements and newer chip designs, it will outpace all other existing architectures.
No matter if you run RISC or IA-32 based systems, you'll still be able to reap performance gains from Itanium-based systems.
An Itanium-based platform also provides superior performance in all three areas of 'RAS': 'Reliability—Availability—Serviceability'. ...
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