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Never have started it. There were certainly some nice (and interesting) ideas behind it - but it was too late, too slow and had poor backwards compatibility wi
by entuno 3y ago
Never have started it.
There were certainly some nice (and interesting) ideas behind it - but it was too late, too slow and had poor backwards compatibility with x86.
Intel spent billions on it, and it never achieved anything like the success that it needed to - their sales forecasts vs actual sales are pretty damning: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Itanium_Sales_Forecasts_edit.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Itanium_...
- mlyle 3y agoIn retrospect, Itanium was not great. It didn't look like it at the time, and arguably helped Intel overall. The prevailing wisdom throughout the industry was that x86 performance was going to be harder and harder to get, and that Intel needed to do something. Intel staved off this criticism for awhile with Itanium, and had a fallback if they got really stuck on x86. Of course, AMD with Opteron twisted the knife.