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Dalewyn on April 2, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC...

>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).

panick21_ on April 2, 2023 [–]

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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