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Just like Intel named their competing 64 bit architecture Intel Itanium. The AMD64 architecture won and Intel decided to license it.
by jeltz 14y ago
Just like Intel named their competing 64 bit architecture Intel Itanium. The AMD64 architecture won and Intel decided to license it.
- potkor 14y agoIn practice Itanium only competed with the existing 64-bit architectures from the Unix vendors. Many of whom got suckered into dropping their own stuff and moving onto Itanium, and got wiped out because of the very late & underperforming Itanium chips (frequently called "Itanic")...