I'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 competit

I'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.