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Microsoft did port some versions of Windows to Itanium, so they did not reject it at first. With poor market demand and AMD's success with amd64, Microsoft did

Microsoft did port some versions of Windows to Itanium, so they did not reject it at first. With poor market demand and AMD's success with amd64, Microsoft did not support itanium in vista and later desktop versions which signaled the end of Intel's Itanium.

Analemma_ 1y ago
Microsoft also ships/shipped a commercial compiler with tons of users, and so they were probably in a position to realize early that the hypothetical "sufficiently smart compiler" which Itanium needed to reach its potential wasn't actually possible.
- SunlitCat 1y ago
  I wonder if AI would have been a huge help to that.
  - consp 1y ago
    Some "simple" optimization algorithm would be enough modern "AI" just adds obfuscation. Though it would be slow as hell and thus unusable.
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wmf 1y ago
Microsoft supported IA-64 (Itanium) and AMD64 but they refused to also support Yamhill. They didn't want to support three different ISAs.
- dooglius 1y ago
  What is/was Yamhill?
  - cwizou 1y ago
    It was the name of Intel's x86 64bit flavor : https://www.edn.com/intel-working-on-yamhill-technology-says-report/ https://www.edn.com/intel-working-on-yamhill-technology-says...