Re:Prior Art? (Score 1)

most of the stuff that intel has included in their IA-64 instruction set has been done before. VLIW was done during the 80's, there are ARM processors that have predicated instructions and just about every current processor has deep pipelines. the unique thing about intel is that they decided to put it all together. the bizarre thing is that they seem to have lost the plot. hp is recommending that it's customers don't go with the first generation of the Itanium chip (too slow compared with PA-RISC). this patent "should" be blown out of the water...