Article ID: 000054867 Content Type: Product Information & Documentation Last Reviewed: 06/29/2022

Are Intel® Xeon® Processors EPIC-Based?

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Summary

Information about the architectures type of Intel® Xeon® Processors

Description

Is an Intel® Xeon® Processor an EPIC-based processor?

Resolution

Intel® Xeon® Processors have an x86 architecture, thus use x86 instruction set, and are not EPIC-based.

Only the older discontinued Intel® Itanium® processors are EPIC-based. A 2012 whitepaper can be found at Massive Parallelism for Mission-Critical Applications.

Additional information

EPIC is an acronym for Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.