> They couldn’t build a high-end market at the scales they needed to support continued development at Intel’s pace. It's interesting how different things are t

> They couldn’t build a high-end market at the scales they needed to support continued development at Intel’s pace. It's interesting how different things are today. If someone came along today with a new ground-up design for a CPU architecture + ISA, that was truly "better", all they would need to do is to show it to the cloud hardware vendors, and they'd likely get a billion dollars of runway shoved into their hands.