> These delays didn’t stop the hypetrain. This is an understatement. From an older article "How the Itanium killed the Computer Industry" https://www.pcmag.com

> These delays didn’t stop the hypetrain. This is an understatement. From an older article "How the Itanium killed the Computer Industry" https://www.pcmag.com/archive/how-the-itanium-killed-the-computer-industry-236394 https://www.pcmag.com/archive/how-the-itanium-killed-the-com... > In 1997 Intel was the king of the hill; in that year it first announced the Itanium or IA-64 processor. That same year, research company IDC predicted that the Itanium would take over the world, racking up $38 billion in sales in 2001. > What we heard was that HP, IBM, Dell, and even Sun Microsystems would use these chips and discontinue anything else they were developing. This included Sun making noise about dropping the SPARC chip for this thing—sight unseen. I say "sight unseen" because it would be years before the chip was even prototyped. The entire industry just took Intel at its word that Itanium would work as advertised in a PowerPoint presentation. And then the original article has an Intel leader saying "Everything was new. When you do that, you're going to stumble". Yeah, much as Intel stumbled with the Pentium IV and basically everything since Skylake in 2015 (which was late). Let's emphasize this: for near ten years now, Intel can't deliver on time and on target. Just last year, Sapphire Rapids after being late by two years shipped in 2023 March and needed to pause in June because of a bug. Meteor Lake was also two years late. In 2020 https://www.zdnet.com/article/intels-7nm-product-transition-delayed-focus-shifted-to-10nm/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/intels-7nm-product-transition-... > Intel's first 7nm product, a client CPU, is now expected to start shipping in late 2022 or early 2023, CEO Bob Swan said on a conference call Thursday. > The yield of Intel's 7nm process is now trending approximately 12 months behind the company's internal target. Well then the internal target must've been late 2021 and it came out late 2023.