Later Itanium chips literally went right back to the "hardware JIT" (speculation, OOO, etc) they were trying to get away from in order to increase performance.

Later Itanium chips literally went right back to the "hardware JIT" (speculation, OOO, etc) they were trying to get away from in order to increase performance. If Itanic had won, we'd still be basically where we are today from a hardware perspective, but with even less competition.