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Alpha 21164 µarch
General Info
Arch TypeCPU
DesignerDEC
ManufacturerDEC
IntroductionJanuary, 1995
Process0.5 µm
Core Configs1
Pipeline
TypeSuperscalar
OoOENo
SpeculativeYes
Reg RenamingNo
Stages7-12
Decode4-way
Instructions
ISAAlpha
Cache
L1I Cache8 KiB/core
direct-mapped
L1D Cache8 KiB/core
direct-mapped
L2 Cache96 KiB/core
3-way set associative
L3 Cache1-64 MiB/motherboard
direct-mapped
Succession

Alpha 21164 was an Alpha microarchitecture designed by DEC and introduced in 1995 as a successor to the Alpha 21064 architecture.

codenameAlpha 21164 +
core count1 +
designerDEC +
first launchedJanuary 1995 +
full page namedec/microarchitectures/alpha 21164 +
instance ofmicroarchitecture +
instruction set architectureAlpha +
manufacturerDEC + and Samsung +
microarchitecture typeCPU +
nameAlpha 21164 +
pipeline stages (max)12 +
pipeline stages (min)7 +
process500 nm (0.5 μm, 5.0e-4 mm) +