Indeed and I suppose in fairness I don’t think 432 was ever intended as a PC cpu replacement whilst Itanium was designed to replace some x86 servers. As an asi

Indeed and I suppose in fairness I don’t think 432 was ever intended as a PC cpu replacement whilst Itanium was designed to replace some x86 servers. As an aside I’m still astonished that 432 and Itanium got as far as they did with so much cash spent on them before without conclusive proof that performance would be competitive. Seems like a prerequisite for projects of this size.