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Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700 by tyingq on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:53AM (#14331548)
I dunno. The cost advantage of x86-64 plus Linux and Windows was a tough nut for other RISC vendors to beat. Price/Performance, plus general support. For example, x86-64​ servers could get away without SSL acceleration because the handshake was done in optimized ASM for most web servers. For other architectures, it wasn't.

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