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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by Dalewyn on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:19PM (#35414105)
>That strategic failure by competitors allowed x86 to grow market share at the high end, which benefited Intel more than the money lost on Itanium.

In that sense, Itanium was a resounding success for Intel (and AMD).

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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by panick21_ on Sunday April 02, 2023 @04:57PM (#35415134)
Itanium was a success right until they actually made a chip.

What they should have done is hype Itanium and then they day it came out they should have said yeah this was a joke, what we did is buy Alpha from Compaq and its literally just Alpha with x86 comparability mode.

Then they would have dominated.

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