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Also known as Intel Architecture 64, Intel Itanium architecture, Itanium architecture

IA-64 (Intel Itanium architecture) is the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the discontinued Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors. The basic ISA specification originated at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and was subsequently implemented by Intel in collaboration with HP. The first Itanium processor, codenamed Merced, was released in 2001.

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CPU architecture.name
Intel Itanium architecture
CPU architecture.designer
HP and Intel
CPU architecture.bits
64-bit
CPU architecture.introduced
2001
CPU architecture.design
EPIC
CPU architecture.type
Load–store
CPU architecture.encoding
Fixed
CPU architecture.branching
Condition register
CPU architecture.endianness
Selectable
CPU architecture.gpr
128 (64 bits plus 1 trap bit; 32 are static, 96 use register windows); 64 1-bit predicate registers
CPU architecture.fpr
128

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IA-64 (Intel Itanium architecture) is the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the discontinued Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors. The basic ISA specification originated at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and was subsequently implemented by Intel in collaboration with HP. The first Itanium processor, codenamed Merced, was released in 2001.

The Itanium architecture is based on explicit instruction-level parallelism, in which the compiler decides which instructions to execute in parallel. This contrasts with superscalar architectures, which depend on the processor to manage instruction dependencies at runtime. In all Itanium models, up to and including Tukwila, cores execute up to six instructions per cycle.

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