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Intel has had some big failures (or missed opportunities) over the years. Just going from memory - Pentium 4 architecture, not recognizing market opportunities
by neverartful 2y ago
Intel has had some big failures (or missed opportunities) over the years. Just going from memory - Pentium 4 architecture, not recognizing market opportunities with ARM, Itanium, AMD beating them to 64 bits on x86, AMD beating them to chiplets and high number of PCIe lanes with EPYC, poor battery life (generally) on laptops. The innovations from Apple with Apple Silicon (ARM) and AMD with EPYC make Intel look like they're completely lost. That's before we even touch on what RISC-V might do to them. It seems like the company has a long history of complacency and hubris.
- neverartful 2y agoThere was also a big flop with the 80860 (sometimes referenced as i860) RISC CPU back around 1990 or so. There was a lot of hype about it being a Cray on a chip. On paper, the CPU looked awesome. The problem was that there were no compilers that were good enough to produce the type of executables to leverage its design.