Itanium?!
Itanium is not a many-core processor: it is a VLIW processor.
If the Larrabee can remind someone of another processor, it's the Niagara family from Sun.
Itanium is not a many-core processor: it is a VLIW processor.
If the Larrabee can remind someone of another processor, it's the Niagara family from Sun.
I would prefer something with a more elegant ISA than an x86, but that's what we have in front of us now, thanks to the huge mass of non-portable x86 code that's so critical for success on the desktop...