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> Intel was on top of the game again with the core architecture Funny thing is that Core, AFAIK, came from a separate laptop chip branch. For 64 bits Intel was
by B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago
> Intel was on top of the game again with the core architecture
Funny thing is that Core, AFAIK, came from a separate laptop chip branch. For 64 bits Intel was betting on Itanium, which crashed and burned like iAPX-432 did before. And so Intel once again was forced to stay on the 8080 treadmill ...
- iforgotpassword 8y agoYup. If was a little "side project" by their team in Haifa that turned out much better than expected. So the Israelis saved Intel. (Dramatization mine)
- harias 8y agoThreadripper was born out of side-projects too. "They worked on it in their spare time and it was really a passion project for about a year before they sought the green light from management, which is quite unusual – it was something they really cared about."