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by bluedino 3430 days ago
Was the Itanium fiasco more HP or Intel's fault?

Either way, it's been 20+ years they could try again.

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I thought they learned that exposing the complexity was a big problem. So now the chips are internally complex but hide it behind the instruction set interface while the chip does its own stuff in the microcode.