Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success
Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success
www.tomshardware.com Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success
If he "didn't stop yammering about the need to go 64-bits in x86", he'd be fired on the spot
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Itanium was an interesting architecture but it relied on compilers to build efficient code for it's bundles. This compares to x86 which dedicates loads of silicon to getting the best performance even out of mediocre code. Unfortunately the Itanic architecture was really ill suited to emulating the other.
ETA: rm dups.