Shadows of Itanium: Russian firm debuts VLIW Elbrus 4 CPU with onboard x86 emulation

The new Russian VLIW-based Elbrus-4C CPU is clocked at just 800MHz, but it can execute up to 23 instructions per clock. There aren't many VLIW chips in the market -- we investigate the possibilities and problems of the CPU design.

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