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Itanium Casing

The following are a few basic specifications of the Itanium Processor:

Clock Speed  800MHz and 1000MHz
In x86 mode comparable performance to 500MHz Pentium II
128 64-bit General Purpose Registers
x86 has 8 General Purpose Registers
MIPS R10000 has 64 General Purpose Registers
128 80-bit Floating Point Registers
64 1-bit Predicate Registers
8 64-bit Branch Registers
64-bit Memory Addressing
6-wide EPIC Hardware
10-stage in-order pipeline
4 Single Cycle ALUs
2 Extended Precision FMACs
FMAC (Floating Point Multiply Accumulate Unit)
4 Extended Precision / Double Precision FLOPs / Cycle
2 Additional Single Precision FMACs
8 Single Precision FLOPs / Cycle
2 Load / Store Units
3 Branch Units
Fetch of 6 instructions / cycle
L1, L2 and L3 Caches
4MB On-Cartridge L3 Cache
0.18 Micron Process Technology
Slot M Form Factor
460GX Chipset
1-4 Processors
64GB PC100 SDRAM
Dual Memory Ports at 4.2 GB/s
Speculated Price ~ $5,000