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That's a good overview, and it made me think of a parallel list of chips that got quite a lot of press but did not shake the world much after all. Off the cuff
by ableal 8y ago
That's a good overview, and it made me think of a parallel list of chips that got quite a lot of press but did not shake the world much after all.
Off the cuff, Intel would have two solid entries with the iAPX 432 and the Itanium, there's probably some Lisp machine and putative 'Japanese 5th gen computer' silicon to add, and maybe the Transmeta Crusoe could have honors in both lists ...
- pinewurst 8y agoI'd argue that the Itanium did "shake the world" due to the vast hype. In a sense it killed the server RISC processors (MIPS, SPARC, HP-PA) because the competition was so afraid of what Intel could bring to bear.
- rjsw 8y agoAt the time, the Transmeta Crusoe was the only x86 System on Chip (SoC). Every other CPU needed an extra chipset to provide a PCI bus.