The company views the recent resurgence of interest in VLIW very long instruction word and EPIC explicitly parallel instruction computing chips -most prominently in Intel Corp's Merced processor - as an endorsement of its own multi-threaded approach.
The Intel Itanium processor was designed from the ground up to meet the increasing demands for high availability, scalability, and performance in high-end enterprise and technical computing, using Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) technology to enable breakthrough levels of performance through multiple, simultaneous instruction execution.
As part of HP's technology vision, the company joined with Intel in 1994 to develop Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) technology, the foundation for the 64-bit Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) within Intel's future 64-bit architecture, IA-64.
