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Itanium was a 64-bit RISC architecture Had Intel said something like Apple has each time they have made a CPU change (68k to PPC to x86 to ARM): "here is the n
by warrenm 3y ago
Itanium was a 64-bit RISC architecture
Had Intel said something like Apple has each time they have made a CPU change (68k to PPC to x86 to ARM): "here is the new thing; we will support a fat binary model for a 'while'; move to the new thing", Itanium (which, from a technical viewpoint should have blown the ever-loving PANTS off x86) would have [probably] 'won'
Or we would have an even-more splintered CPU space - x86-64 from AMD, ARM, POWER, Itanium, etc
But they did not
They release the Itanic as a side-by-side with their existing CPU lines, which encouraged AMD to develop AMD64, and more-or-less forever broke Intel's utter dominance of the desktop and server space