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Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700 by bluedino on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:31AM (#14331449)
What makes you think it wouldn't have been POWER? Or SPARC? They were both way more popular than PA-RISC.
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Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700 by tyingq on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:46AM (#14331514)
Because Power and Sparc would have ceded to Itanium. Neither backer had the resources Intel did. The easy path to kill Itanium was x86-64, because it was inexpensive and worked with Linux and Windows. AMD didn't have to compete with Intel per se. It forced Intel to do X86-64 as well...which killed Itanium.
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