Epic

• VLIW and EPIC: The Multiflow Trace, Itanium, and Why Static Scheduling Lost to Out-of-Order · 2024-01-14

  A historical and technical analysis of VLIW and EPIC architectures—the Multiflow Trace, Intel Itanium—examining static scheduling, predication, rotating registers, and why out-of-order superscalar won the commercial battle.