The i860 did not live up to expectations - it was a VLIW design and much like the Itanium design which followed, the platform was largely sank by the inability

The i860 did not live up to expectations - it was a VLIW design and much like the Itanium design which followed, the platform was largely sank by the inability of compilers to generate code that made full use of the chip. https://www.realworldtech.com/intel-history-lesson/3/ https://www.realworldtech.com/intel-history-lesson/3/