I always figured they should have gone towards custom architecture as a product.
This would have dovetailed well with the Itanium-driven extinction of a lot of high-end architectures. If you can get one more generational upgrade for some bespoke platform running MIPS or M88k or whatever, you might pay $10k per chip instead of conpeting with commodity x86.
I always figured they should have gone towards custom architecture as a product.
This would have dovetailed well with the Itanium-driven extinction of a lot of high-end architectures. If you can get one more generational upgrade for some bespoke platform running MIPS or M88k or whatever, you might pay $10k per chip instead of conpeting with commodity x86.