Question

Which processor architecture exploits instruction bundles?

Answer 1

Explicitly parallel instruction computing(EPIC) is a term coined in 1997 by the HP–Intel alliance[1] to describe a computing paradigm that researchers had been investigating since the early 1980s.[2] This paradigm is also called Independencearchitectures. It was the basis for Intel and HPdevelopment of the Intel Itaniumarchitecture,[3] and HP later asserted that "EPIC" was merely an old term for the Itanium architecture.[4] EPIC permits microprocessors to execute software instructions in parallel by using the compiler, rather than complex on-die circuitry, to control parallel instruction execution. This was intended to allow simple performance scaling without resorting to higher clock frequencies.