I think we are just now starting to have the software maturity to handle something like Itanium. We have toolchains with data flow analysis, languages other tha

I think we are just now starting to have the software maturity to handle something like Itanium. We have toolchains with data flow analysis, languages other than C which could hint the instruction scheduler, we have profiling, we can gather profiling from not just a developers workbench but with instrumentation and we have Machine Learning to eke out patterns. But back then, Intel vastly overestimated the capabilities of the software world to take their tech and run with it.