Nice story, but it doesn't fully add up: "When Intel started Itanium development work in the mid 1990s" That's more than a decade after AMD releasing their fir

Nice story, but it doesn't fully add up: "When Intel started Itanium development work in the mid 1990s" That's more than a decade after AMD releasing their first x86 compatible CPU. Intel was very aware of the threat before they started the work on Itanium. They even tried to hold back AMD with a lawsuit which they lost and ultimately allowed AMD to release their 80386 compatible CPU. I find it more likely that it failed for similar reasons why iAPX 432 and i860 failed. There just wasn't a market.