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This presentation discusses the motivations and strategy for the instruction set design for IA-64, code named Merced. The key limiters to improving performance will be discussed and the features in the architecture to address these limiters are previewed. Jointly developed between HP and Intel, this new 64-bit architecture is designed to expose, enhance, and exploit instruction level parallelism to achieve a high level of performance. The presentation is targeted for those with no exposure to IA-64 and covers the material presented at Microprocessor Forum.
Jerry Huck is Hewlett-Packard's Systems Architecture and Design Lab project manager and lead architect for the IA-64.
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