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    The Alpha 21264 is a RISC microprocessor developed by Digital Equipment Corporation launched on 19 October 1998. The 21264 implemented the Alpha instruction...
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  • at the 11th Annual Microprocessor Forum, where it was described as an Alpha 21264 with a 1.5 MB 6-way set-associative on-die secondary cache, an integrated...
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    company, the 21164-based AlphaPC 164 and AlphaPC 164LX, the 21164PC-based AlphaPC 164SX and AlphaPC 164RX and the 21264-based AlphaPC 264DP. Several third...
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    Digital's flagship microprocessor. It was succeeded by the Alpha 21264 in 1998. First silicon of the Alpha 21164 was produced in February 1994, and the OpenVMS...
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    designing a number of processors, including the VAX 8800, the Alpha 21164 and the Alpha 21264 processors. Prior to DEC, he had worked at Harris Corporation...
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    200 MHz front-side bus on Duron, XP and Sempron processors, based on the Alpha 21264 EV6 bus. Initially launched with 100 MHz FSB support in the earliest...
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    more] nondeterministic. Some superscalar processors (MIPS R8000, Alpha 21264, and Alpha 21464 (EV8)) fetch each line of instructions with a pointer to the...
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    originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for its Alpha 21264 microprocessor. Slot A is mechanically compatible but electrically incompatible...
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    "LGA 4189 Socket and Hardware" (PDF). Hachman, Mark (February 2, 1999). "Alpha camp moves to "Slot B" connector to push further into workstations". EE...
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  • entries only if they match the current process ID. For example, in the Alpha 21264, each TLB entry is tagged with an address space number (ASN), and only...
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    Appendix D - 21264 (EV6) internal processor registers, 21272 (Tsunami/Typhoon) system support chipset registers, dual-port RAM registers AlphaServer ES40...
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  • Raspberry Pi (Model B) clock × 1.00 5.6 Intel Itanium 2 clock × 1.49 8.3 Alpha 21264 clock × 1.99 11.1 VIA Centaur clock × 1.99 11.1 AMD K5/K6/K6-2/K6-III...
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  • implements this ISA, the Alpha 21264, has 80 integer and 72 floating-point physical registers. There are, on an Alpha 21264 chip, 80 physically separate...
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    VP2/97 AMD-750 chipset AMD-751 1999 Athlon, Duron (Slot A, Socket A), Alpha 21264 100 (FSB) AMD-756, VIA-VT82C686A AGP 2×, SDRAM Irongate chipset family;...
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  • DEC J-11 DEC V-11 MicroVAX 78032 CVAX Rigel Mariah NVAX Alpha 21064 Alpha 21164 Alpha 21264 Alpha 21364 StrongARM Vortex86 Emotion Engine Elbrus 2K (VLIW...
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    processors (EPYC, EPYC Embedded, Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper), and the DEC Alpha 21264. As of 2006[update], EDC/ECC and ECC/ECC are the two most-common cache...
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    Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The combination of Quadrics and Alpha 21264 (EV6) microprocessors proved very successful, and Digital/Compaq rapidly...
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  • into mainstream personal computers. Since DEC Alpha gained out-of-order execution in 1998 (Alpha 21264), the top-performing out-of-order processor cores...
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  • List of AMD FX microprocessors Charles R. Moore (computer engineer) Alpha 21264 K10 (microarchitecture) Bobcat (microarchitecture) Opteron Piledriver...
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    address space (8 TB) and 40 bits of physical memory address space (1 TB). Alpha 21264 supported user-configurable 43 or 48 bits of virtual memory address space...
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    at 200 MHz. It competed with the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Alpha 21264 and the Hewlett-Packard (HP) PA-8500. The POWER3 was based on the PowerPC...
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    750, RS64, ESA/390 G4; Intel Pentium II; Sun UltraSPARC IIs 1998 DEC Alpha 21264; HAL Computer SPARC64 III; Hewlett Packard PA-8500; IBM POWER3, RS64-II...
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  • Graduate School of Management. He was a co-architect of the Alpha 21064 and Alpha 21264 microprocessors during his employment at DEC and also worked...
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    design, again like previous post-5x86 AMD CPUs. The Athlon utilizes the Alpha 21264's EV6 bus architecture with double data rate (DDR) technology.[citation...
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  • kinds of predictors (e.g., the store-to-load bypass predictor in the DEC Alpha 21264), and various specialized predictors are likely to flourish in future...
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  • requirement of memory barriers for readers and writers. On Alpha hardware (like multiprocessor Alpha 21264 systems) cache line invalidations sent to other processors...
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    166–233 MHz 32 350 nm 8.8 1998 RS64-II IBM 262 MHz 64 350 nm 12.5 1998 Alpha 21264 DEC 450–600 MHz 64 350 nm 15.2 1998 MIPS R12000 SGI 270–400 MHz 64 250–180...
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  • microprocessor (that is, excluding the cache). For example, the last DEC Alpha chip uses 90% of its transistors for cache. A graphics processing unit (GPU)...
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    1999, and it would have competed with Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha 21264 and Intel's Itanium (Merced). This was not to be the case as it was delayed...
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  • forces multiple copies of a register file, one for each datapath. The Alpha 21264 (EV6), for instance, was the first large micro-architecture to implement...
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