Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 07:29:02 GMT
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:

 
It seems to me that IA-64 was a bigger failure: More money invested,
and more money lost (probably even relative to the size of the company
at the time).
 
- anton

But more money made, too.
I'd suppose, in its later days, when all ambitions evaporated, Itanium
became a decent cache cow for Intel. Not spectacular, of course, just
decent.
i860 didn't quuie reach the state of cache cow. And i432 didn't reach
anything.