Chapter 13
| A1: | What are the disadvantages of offering customers a new architecture? |
| A2: | Think about the Intel IA-32 architecture, for example. |
| A3: | Over time, what features have moved from outside the chip to inside? Cache and floating-point instructions are two examples. What others can you cite? |
| A4: | You might try to research the relative latency of integer multiplication in other architectures. |
| A6: | Two M-units can load data (load pair and a regular load) and another M-unit can store a result with templates such as MMF and Mxx for the instruction group. The original Itanium processor has fewer M-units. |
| A8: | –256 to +255 bundles, or ±4 KiB. |
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