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I love studying failure, or at least when systems break. Please do a follow up that addresses Itanium and the P4.

The failures you describe in the post were technical manifestations of an operational failure in bringing an engineering project to completion. The scope was too large, with too many unknowns. Had they scheduled their project relative to Moore's Law, they could have kept the team smaller until they had the transistor budget to ship the chip they designed. You should read about how the Aztek was made [1]

[1] http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a6357/bob-lutz-tells...