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		DeathArrow on April 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips startin... Weird since Intel tried themselves to kill x86 with IA-64.

baybal2 on April 23, 2020 | [–]

IA-64 is the "INTEL Architecture 64", xScale is the non-Intel architecture.

A childish NIH driven decision that destroyed their future.

saagarjha on April 23, 2020 | | [–]

Intel tried to replace x86 with Itanium. XScale was just a thing they did on the side.

btian on April 23, 2020 | [–]

Because they won't have to share IA-64 with AMD.

ARM has many other licensees so Intel didn't want to continue

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