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IA-64

IA-64 noun: an EPIC 64-bit instruction set architecture designed to allow relatively simple, cheap CPUs to execute many 64-bit instructions simultaneously and with potentially very high performance; developed by Intel in the late 1990s with the intent of replacing the older x86 architecture, but was delayed and proved uncompetitive with x86 (especially x86-64), seeing use only in Intel's own Itanium line of high-end CPUs.

Noun

IA-64

  1. An EPIC 64-bit instruction set architecture designed to allow relatively simple, cheap CPUs to execute many 64-bit instructions simultaneously and with potentially very high performance; developed by Intel in the late 1990s with the intent of replacing the older x86 architecture, but was delayed and proved uncompetitive with x86 (especially x86-64), seeing use only in Intel's own Itanium line of high-end CPUs.

Origin of IA-64

Initialism of Intel Architecture, 64-bit.

Questions about IA-64

What does IA-64 mean?
IA-64 means an EPIC 64-bit instruction set architecture designed to allow relatively simple, cheap CPUs to execute many 64-bit instructions simultaneously and with potentially very high performance; developed by Intel in the late 1990s with the intent of replacing the older x86 architecture, but was delayed and proved uncompetitive with x86 (especially x86-64), seeing use only in Intel's own Itanium line of high-end CPUs.
What part of speech is IA-64?
IA-64 is a noun.

Words near IA-64 in the dictionary

  1. I3
  2. i386
  3. I3A
  4. IA
  5. IA-32
  6. IA-64
  7. IAAF
  8. Iaai
  9. IAAL
  10. IAAPA
  11. IaaS

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