A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 15, 2009 @07:45PM from the open-mouth-insert-marketing dept.

On CNet.com, Brooke Crowthers has a review of some flops in the chip-making world — from IBM, Intel, and AMD — and the hype that surrounded them, which is arguably as interesting as the chips' failures. "First, I have to revisit Intel's Itanium. Simply because it's still around and still missing production target dates. The hype: 'This design philosophy will one day replace RISC and CISC. It is a gateway into the 64-bit future.' ... The reality: Yes, Itanium is still warm, still breathing in the rarefied very-high-end server market — where it does have a limited role. But... it certainly hasn't remade the computer industry."

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Re:Itanium would have worked-AMD screwed it for in by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-15 21:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Boohoo! AMD is being so *mean*! They're *competing* with us! It's just not *fair!
Re:That's it? by serveto · 2009-02-15 23:04 · Score: 2, Funny

I like quiche.
iAPX 432 by nurb432 · 2009-02-16 02:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Was so far ahead of its time, we still are not ready for it. Tho finally silicon has advanced far enough to make the architecture work.
( note my nick.. you can tell i was a fan :) )

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