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

Chapter 3. Planning the Revolution: Developing the Itanium Processor Family

“Wherever you see a high density of intellectual property and a high density of human capital going into the design of a product, you can in fact accelerate this [process] with computing power...You can expand the creativity of your employees...and translate those ideas into marketable designs or marketable products much more rapidly.”

—Craig Barrett, President of Intel

In This Chapter:

• Itanium Architecture's Dual Legacy

• The Developments in Computing Power Leading to the Itanium Processor Family.

• The Wide Word Project's Charter

• The Findings of Itanium's Design Team

• The Reasons Behind a Partnership with Intel

• Envisioning a World with Itanium Computing Power