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CPU architecture terminology

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Special K

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What is the difference between IA-64 and x86-64? Is the P4 a 40786 processor or an x87? I have also heard it called an IA-32. What is the difference between these various terms?
 
IA-32 = "32-bit Intel Architecture for x86."
IA-64 = "64-bit Intel Architecture", but is an entirely different ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), and even uses a radically different processing paradigm.

x86-64 = "AMD's 64-bit extension of IA-32" Basically the same type of straight-foward extension that was made by Intel going from the 286 to the 386. There are other differences of course, but this is a summarization 😉


Pentium 4 is intels "7th" generation architecture, thus would be something like a 786.

x87 refers to the floating point capabilities of an x86 processor.

EDIT:

When I say "radically different processing paradigm" I don't mean that it doesn't use the Von Neuman processing paradigm, as it does...I'm just saying that it takes another approach than x86 and other current CPUs
 
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