alt Hacker NewsIIRC Itanium was faster on natively compiled HPC code, presumably because it had more FPUs and larger cache than the Pentium 4. But in general it probably wasn't a good upgrade and Intel would have had to sandbag x86 a lot to force Itanium adoption.
IIRC Itanium was faster on natively compiled HPC code, presumably because it had more FPUs and larger cache than the Pentium 4. But in general it probably wasn't a good upgrade and Intel would have had to sandbag x86 a lot to force Itanium adoption.
The other problem was that the Pentium 4 itself was kind of a dog, and then the Pentium M and Core lines started making that look bad, by which point the Itanic passengers could feel their socks getting wet and a growing concern about there not being enough life boats.