[bstar77]

I would vote for the Pentium IV for all the reasons mentioned in the article, but more importantly because it was initially coupled with Rambus memory. Intel pushed that tech so hard to try and squeeze out AMD. Super high frequency, high bandwidth, high expense memory with terrible latency was not the future anyone wanted. Intel's hubris back then was off the charts.

I know intel wanted Itanium to succeed for the same reasons, but the PIV came very close to home since it actually shipped for consumers. Oddly enough, Extreme Tech was a huge shill for Intel back in those days. Funny they don't mention that in this article.