The Intel Chip That Was Too Ambitious: The Rise and Fall of Itanium

Описание: In the late 1990s, Intel believed it had found the future of computing.
The company was developing a revolutionary 64-bit processor architecture called Itanium, created in partnership with Hewlett-Packard to move beyond the limitations of x86.
It wasn't supposed to be just another CPU. It was designed to become the future of high-end computing.
But there was a problem.
Itanium arrived late, was difficult to program, struggled with software compatibility, and faced an unexpected challenge from AMD's x86-64 architecture.
What followed was one of the most ambitious processor projects in Intel's history.
This is the story of Itanium — why Intel believed so strongly in it, how AMD changed the 64-bit battle, why the market moved in a different direction, and how a processor designed to shape the future eventually became a dead end.
From IA-64 to x86-64, this is the story of Intel's biggest CPU gamble.


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