Itanium was being defined around the same time the 1st Alphas came to market. By the time Itanium2 came out, it matched/surpassed the contemporary AXP parts. F

Itanium was being defined around the same time the 1st Alphas came to market. By the time Itanium2 came out, it matched/surpassed the contemporary AXP parts. FWIW the alpha design teams ended up cannibalized between AMD and Intel. The original Opteron and the first generations of Core i have a ton of AXP DNA in them, from a uarch standpoint. So in a sense, Intel and AMD did continue Alpha... sort of. However. I feel that Alpha gets over fetishized on the internet sometimes. It was a clean arch, mainly because it was a clean 64bit design from the get go. But as far as uArch, it was pretty generic. Most of the uArch themes the AXP design teams used, which a lot of people think were native inventions to Alpha, came straight from industry/academia research, and plenty of other processors implemented them as well.