Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • Free Essays • My Term Papers • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Computers IA64 IA64 The following couple of pages summarizes the article “A Quantum Leap, but at a Glacial Pace” written by Cade Metz. It deals with Intel developing a 64-bit chip called Itanium (IA-64). This is the first chip that Intel has built. I will summarize the main points in the following paragraphs, hoping that the reader will understand and be familiarized with the IA-64. The IA-64 is the first chip that Intel has designed that is unlike any processor it has every made. This means that the IA-64 uses the full 64-bit instruction set. The instruction set is what the computers uses when it compiles information and then executes the demand. When a chip uses all 64-bits of memory this also lets the computer use all of its 264 bits or 18 billion gigabytes, which makes the computer execute a demand quicker. That is the computer is operating at its full potential that it is capable of operating at. The chip also can better handle large data sets when it has that much memory at its side. As with any component in a computer, there seems to always be a problem with that piece. That is something always needs to be done, so that it works with other components in the computer and with external equipment. The IA-64 doesn’t let a 32-bit software take full advantage of its architecture. With big applications, they have to be recompiled (rewrite the code for the application) for the IA-64. For users to recompile an application for the IA-64 platform is not that hard, if the code is well written. Once the user has made the transition to the new platform, then there is a greater benefit then there was with the Pentium 4 and the Athlon. These are the chips that are competing with the IA-64 on the market. The IA-64 began seven years ago, when Intel and Hewlett-Packard joined together. Seeing the limitations inherent in both the RISC (reduced instruction set computing) and CISC (complex instruction set computing) the companies came up with this chip. The end result of the IA-64 is that it processes more instructions in parallel. The chip does this with the help of EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing). With this feature, the software can compile these decisions (data) ahead of time. The IA-64 also makes use of prediction and data speculation. They help the chip execute codes and perform task faster and easier. Merced, who was originally suppose to introduce the chip, but as with many chips there was a longer debugging process that delayed the introduction. Finally in this past May, Intel officially announced the chip. Being the first sixty-four-bit chip by Intel, the IA-64 not yet quite meets the platform potential, but still out does most RISC processors. Now that Intel has created this IA-64 chip all it has to do is put it on the market, so that the consumer can purchase the chip. Right now the market for this chip is very slow and immature. The IA-64 has been provided to the developers for some quite time now. Once it’s on the market the next step is to see how it will do. Right now, PC manufacturers like Dell, HP, and IBM are selling IA-64 machines with various 64-bit operating systems. While on the market, the chip still has some obstacles to face. One is that the AMD is hot on their tail. This is do to that they will introduce their 64-bit chip (Clawhammer and Sledgehammer). Like the Intel chip, AMD’s chip only use the full potential with applications specifically coded for their architecture. However, in the end some people believe that the Intel chip will provide more potential. They base this with the fact that Intel has rebuilt the instruction set instead of changing the x86 architecture. In the word of technology companies are trying to come up with the fastest and easiest way to store and compute information. According to this article, Intel has come pretty close with other companies still hot on their tails to beat or get in on the action. Once something is made though it seems like another thing comes along that is better and cheaper. With that the future is here, but it will take the rest of us to catch up in the long run. Bibliography: Brey, Barry. The Intel microprocessors. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Jackson, Tim. Inside Intel. New York: Penguin Group Inc., 1997. Magee, Mike. “AMD’s Hammer vs. Intel’s Itanic.” The Inqiurer. 9/16/2001: pgs. 32-45. http://www.theinquirer.net/16090104.htm Metz, Cade. “A Quantum Leap, but a Glacial Pace.” PC Magazine. New York: Harding Co., 2002. Resetar, Susan. Technology forces at work. California: RAND, 1999. Word Count: 718
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