Andy Grove thought it would produce higher margins as a product of bigger iron in monstrous client-server architectures. But just as the PC blew up the minicom

Andy Grove thought it would produce higher margins as a product of bigger iron in monstrous client-server architectures. But just as the PC blew up the minicomputer market, x86 Linux servers and LAMP changed the game at the time Itanium uptake was supposed to explode. AMD64 made sure there was a path forward on x86, but the pre-dot-com-bust deployments were actually just fine in i686-32-bit memory space.