Heh, refused to die seems like a weird way to state it. Intel tried to force a split in desktop/server design with a significant price premium and shipped a ve

Heh, refused to die seems like a weird way to state it. Intel tried to force a split in desktop/server design with a significant price premium and shipped a very complicated CPU that moved significant complexity/work into the compiler. It managed to scare Alpha, Mips, and PA-risc out of the market, and generally shipped years late and hit performance milestones even later. AMD on the other hand doubled the x86's registers, added 64 bit support, improved performance and did so with basically zero increase in cost. So suddenly a random x86-64, even a desktop, could gasp make full use of over 4GB ram at zero cost. So Itanium retreated from servers, to HPC, to enterprise, and HA enterprise then of course died.