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

In Summary

• The microprocessor 'engines' that run computers at present have inherent limits on parallelism, scalability, and reliability to effectively handle newer, more complex computing challenges. The emerging need is for newer machines that can handle the extra demands placed on servers today.

• Enterprises that need large amount of analytical, “number crunching” computing power will gain immediate benefits from the Intel Itanium architecture. This is because systems powered by an Itanium processor have improved floating-point mathematical power and can handle larger datasets and bandwidth-hungry applications.

• The early architectures such as CISC and RISC paved the way for the Itanium architecture development. The synergy resulting from the partnership ...