New Itanium Microarchitecture Planned For 2011

Microprocessor vendors and researchers use the International Solid State Circuits Conference as a venue to share novel techniques and advertise upcoming products. The advanced program for 2011 was just released, and hints at some rather interesting presentations slated for next February – although the abstracts will not be available for another week. There are roughly 10 papers on mainstream microprocessors that will be discussed over the course of two days. Many of these microprocessors, such as IBM’s z196, AMD’s Bobcat or Intel’s Sandy Bridge have been discussed before in different venues. However, Intel managed to slip in a 100% novel disclosure regarding the high-end server oriented Itanium family into the ISSCC advanced program.