alt Hacker NewsI don't know anything about Itanium in particular, but AMD's NPU uses a VLIW architecture and they had to break backwards compatibility in the ISA for the second generation NPU (XDNA2) to get better performance.
I don't know anything about Itanium in particular, but AMD's NPU uses a VLIW architecture and they had to break backwards compatibility in the ISA for the second generation NPU (XDNA2) to get better performance.