alt Hacker NewsIt appeared to me (from far outside) that Intel was trying to segment the market into "Affordable Home and office PC:s with x86" and "Expensive serious computing with itanium". Having everything so different was a feature, to justify the eyewateringly expensive itanium pricetag.
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kuschku • today at 11:15 AM
The same trick they pulled again with AVX512 and ECC support later on.
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Earw0rm • today at 9:15 AM
The IBM PS/2 play. And we all know how well that one worked out.
Seems shortsighted (I'm not saying you're wrong, I can imagine Intel being shortsighted). Surely the advantage of artificial segmentation is that it's artificial: you don't double up the R&D costs.