[flyinghamster]

I was also surprised the iAPX 432 wasn't on the list. It seems to be the Itanium's grandaddy. It was expensive, targeted to enterprises rather than everyone, tried to push the boundaries (32-bit for the 432, 64-bit for Itanium), and relied on VLIW instruction sets that were beyond the capabilities of compilers. The resemblance is striking.

As for Bulldozer, I was saddled with one for a while. Where it really fell down was (surprise!) its floating point performance. That FPU shared between two integer units makes for some "interesting" performance characteristics when trying to run multiple FP-heavy tasks, but overall, it was merely mediocre rather than terrible. I'm glad AMD hit it out of the park with Zen.