I'm just pointing out that Itanium had dynamic/hardware branch prediction and it's not necessarily immune to Spectre type exploits. As you mentioned, there are

I'm just pointing out that Itanium had dynamic/hardware branch prediction and it's not necessarily immune to Spectre type exploits. As you mentioned, there are in-order scoreboarded pipelines that allow things like that, so dodging OoOE is not necessarily a perfect panacea.