There is something deeply amusing about Itanium setting out to be Intel's new flagship 64-bit architecture before sinking under its own weight into niche use by

There is something deeply amusing about Itanium setting out to be Intel's new flagship 64-bit architecture before sinking under its own weight into niche use by effectively just HP Ten rendered irrelevant by their own competitor, AMD releasing "AMD64" (x86_64) a few years later Now fast forward 20~ years into the future and we're building emulators for Intel's dead 64-bit platform to run atop effectively AMD's 64-bit answer to it