> People sometimes think that the market caused the Alpha to fail. Really, it was Intel. They wanted Itanic to succeed so much that they made a deal with HP to

> People sometimes think that the market caused the Alpha to fail. Really, it was Intel. They wanted Itanic to succeed so much that they made a deal with HP to end the Alpha prematurely, even though demand for Alpha systems was high. This is misleading at best - "The Itanium architecture originated at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and was later jointly developed by HP and Intel." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium) A more realistic view would see it as a casualty of the DEC->Compaq->HP merger sequence, with HP long committed to Itanium as the successor to its own PA-Risc architecture.