Itanium Processor Family

The ItaniumProcessorFamily is Intel's development of a 64-bit processor architecture. I wish to point out that the first 64-bit processors were created years ago. The one that I currently use is known as PaRisc from HewlettPackard.

Not to mention the long-reigning king of 64 bit processors, the DigitalEquipmentCorporation AlphaProcessor?. Sadly in decline, if not quite deceased.

The Intel Itanium Processor offers some of the following...

• instruction parallelism
• 128 general purpose integer registers
• 128 floating point registers
• 64 1-bit predicate registers
• 8 branch registers
• 128 special purpose application registers
• data and control speculation
• branch predication
• full, IA-32 backwards compatibility