Linus' own career illustrates my point, I think: Transmeta had advantages in low power design at one point, then Intel simply threw more resources at the proble

Linus' own career illustrates my point, I think: Transmeta had advantages in low power design at one point, then Intel simply threw more resources at the problem. > When [Intel] tried to build a shiny RISC architecture, what we got was Itanium, which turned out to be a disaster That was a shiny VLIW architecture, more or less. The shiny RISC disaster was the 860. And they also had the 432, a fancy CISC disaster, to their name.