SlowSpyder
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True, same was also true of the Alpha processors. Legends in their time.
This may be the death-toll for Itanium, but I doubt it will simply disappear and never be leveraged in future microarchitectures.
I remember well when the original Pentium Pro was released and tagged as being a total dog in anything that wasn't pure 32bit. It too seemed to have a short life in its future, but it was reincarnated and today's best of the best x86 (Haswell) has quite a bit of the old Pentium Pro still under the hood.
Trial and error is the only way to forward with these things, provided your business is robust enough to survive the error and continue paying for more trials
Itanium certainly didn't bring any lasting harm to Intel, unlike some of the miscues at its competitors.
I remember my first IT job, about 1998 or so. I was just an inventory clerk more or less for the helpdesk / desktop support at the time, really wanted to make it to the helpdesk so I could make the 'big bucks'. (I was 19-20 or so at the time... haha) We used Pentium Pros in our workstations, very nice for what we did. But one of the desktop support guys there had an Alpha server at home he would brag about, 600Mhz. My jaw hit the floor, 600 megahertz. This was in a time of 300MHz Penitum II's and 200Mhz Pentium Pros. Good times!