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ultimately it was a focus on marketing that led them to kill engineering (if itanium and the many failures and lucky breaks that led up to it hadn't already co
by jakobson14 2y ago
ultimately it was a focus on marketing that led them to kill engineering
(if itanium and the many failures and lucky breaks that led up to it hadn't already convinced you that intel might never have had good engineering)
- PaulHoule 2y agoIntel tried to get away from x86 over and over again with radically overengineered architectures that didn't work (as well as mainstream architectures) and failed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium