> This architecture accelerated Intel's downward spiral. It should have been shut down years ago, and I find it surprising in the changelog that Intel "is still

> This architecture accelerated Intel's downward spiral. It should have been shut down years ago, and I find it surprising in the changelog that Intel "is still officially shipping chips until July 29, 2021" no wonder Intel is behind on innovation. I don't think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4: > Launched November 20, 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium: > Launched June 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core: > Launched January 2006 You seem to be basically claiming their downward spiral started before their biggest recent upswing, which doesn't make sense. Itanium (and the Pentium 4) were mistakes that they managed to recover from 15 years ago. However, it's only just being discontinued because Intel's not a company that's willing and eager to leave their existing customers in a lurch. Edit: it sounds like HP was basically paying Intel to keep Itanium alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#HP_vs._Oracle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#HP_vs._Oracle: > ...court documents unsealed by a Santa Clara County Court judge revealed that in 2008, Hewlett-Packard had paid Intel around $440 million to keep producing and updating Itanium microprocessors from 2009 to 2014. In 2010, the two companies signed another $250 million deal, which obliged Intel to continue making Itanium CPUs for HP's machines until 2017. According the the article, the latest Itatium processor was released in, surprise!, 2017.