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

In Summary

• EPIC is the next enterprise computing architecture, not simply an evolution of RISC.

• Under EPIC, the compiler can scan and locate much broader areas to process in parallel, thus allowing for a much larger speed gain.

• The Itanium processor's design allows for much larger registers. Registers act as intermediate storage locations for values to reduce the delay in getting instructions and data from memory locations to the processor to speed up processing.

• Finally, these larger registers provide superior performance and accuracy when performing computations involving large, floating-point numbers.