The Apache #’s pretty much give the game away: An Itanium clocked 50% higher was losing to a 2yo Alpha by about 20% on throughput at peak.
VLIW made sense when Intel wanted to win the FP-heavy workstation market. But while it was in development, integer-heavy web workloads became dominant and that was basically the ballgame.
VLIW made sense when Intel wanted to win the FP-heavy workstation market. But while it was in development, integer-heavy web workloads became dominant and that was basically the ballgame.