> Intel spent billions of dollars trying to make Itanic a thing. You're looking at that wrong. Intel spent a gigabuck and scared everybody else out of the spa

> Intel spent billions of dollars trying to make Itanic a thing. You're looking at that wrong. Intel spent a gigabuck and scared everybody else out of the space. That's a brilliant business manuever even if the tech was a failure. The only company left in the space afterward was IBM with POWER. Intel basically wiped out DEC(Alpha), SGI, MIPS, HP (PA-RISC), and Sun (Sparc) for a gigabuck.