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Even if the magical Itanium compiler did exist, Itanium would have still lost to AMD64. As soon as you introduce anything that doesn't behave in a statically pr
by ndiddy 2mo ago
Even if the magical Itanium compiler did exist, Itanium would have still lost to AMD64. As soon as you introduce anything that doesn't behave in a statically predictable manner (multitasking, or virtualization, or even an application that processes unpredictable input like a web backend or database), your performance drops down to a fraction of what a similarly priced AMD64 chip could do. VLIW is great for some very specific workloads like HPC, but Intel should have never tried to replace x86 with it.
- MBCook 2mo agoThe lack of licensing to other companies was clearly a POWERFUL incentive. Imagine how much money they could make if that pesky AMD went away.
- p_l 2mo agoIIRC it was major part of intel's roadmap to establish it so that "future" of PC cpus would be locked down to Intel/HP partnership. And back then VIA was still noticeable competitor!