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Moores law states that the number of transistors in computer chips which directly affects how fast a computer can process information will double every eighteen months however computing speed has been held back by moores lesser known second law more transistors added do not necessarily mean that performance will double every 18 months. To date moores first law has remained unchanged as technological advances get itanium rising breaking through moores second law of computing power now with oreilly online learning oreilly members experience live online training plus books videos and digital content from 200 publishers start your free trial. Carlson covers the development and application of itanium he describes why the leap forward in processing power can help ceous achieve their companys vision his book discusses the implication of these changes to a companys it infrastructure and issues involving how to move away from the desktop model into implementing a system that best makes use of the ipf. Itanium rising breaking through moores second law of computing power by jim carlson jerry huck published sep 19 2002 by pearson in itanium rising two leaders of hps itanium processor initiative present the first systematic guide for business and technical professionals who are implementing or evaluating itanium technologies jim . Chapter 15 compilers in the itanium epic architecture world with the capabilities in the trimaran compiler you are able to go in an aggregate large chunks of code and kind of selection from itanium rising breaking through moores second law of computing power book