Introduction
Why You Need to Know About the Intel Itanium Processor Family
When you think of the business pressures that influence technical innovation and microprocessor design, several drivers come to mind immediately. Processor speed. Scalability. Cross-platform compatibility. Seamless transitions from legacy hardware and software. Reliability at a level that eliminates downtime. And perhaps the biggest driver of all today: the nebulous concepts involving Internet computing and its resulting effect on electronic business.
The Demands of Change
As little as 20 years ago, the capabilities—and problems—resulting from vast numbers of machines that collected and collated data simply did not exist. Information storage and retrieval was primitive ...
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