Intel's Worst Products Ever
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Published 2023-02-03
Intel might be a giant of the processor industry, but they've had some massive flops over the years - including something that isn't even a CPU!
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All Comments (21)
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For those asking about the Itanium - we have a dedicated video on it right here, because it was just THAT bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTSxLURyyE Thanks for watching!
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Before watching, I'm calling Intel Itanium
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No mention of the Itanium? You know, their biggest blunder of all time?
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I also remember the IA-64, which is the ISA for the Itanium architecture for Intel's Itanium family. Itt was supposed to replace x86, but then x86-64 was released.
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Branch prediction in the P4 wasn’t necessarily worse than other architectures, but the long pipeline made wrong predictions very expensive.
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I'm amazed it never mentioned the Pentium 1 floating point bug.
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The branch prediction of the P4 was extremely good. The problem with the P4 was the long pipelines that took a long time to empty when a branch prediction failed. Other problems of the P4 was the high price for the Rambus memory in the beginning. Intel wanted to get around that and created the MTH, which made SDR ram compatible with the Rambus interface. The MTH was very slow and bugged that it eventually had to be recalled.
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I had an i740 paired with 2 Voodoo2s in SLI. If memory serves, I bought it solely for the on-board mpeg decoder which a lot of cards didn't have at the time.
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Nut Bust would be a hit among gamers no matter what product gets that nomenclature. It must have RGB though.
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So be fair to the P4. It was a dam good way to heat your entire house just by opening a few web pages!
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They keep trying to replace their x86 instruction set, only to have users say hell no
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You missed one. What about the Itanium - the first Intel 64 bit processor? And Intel was heavily invested in Rambus Memory, even designing the P-4 to use it to its fullest. The combination of the two was deadly for certain workflows. And the platforms were expensive.
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From a purely "bad product" point of view, Itanium is sorely missing (as pointed by everyone). Maybe the use of Rambus memory could get a honorable mention. But there were also several noteworthy bugs: -FDiv Bug on early original Pentiums. -SDRAM i820 motherboard recall. -Pentium !!! 1.13GHz recall. -6 Series chipset (for Sandy Bridge) recall. -Self-bricking Atom C2000...
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IA-64 should be it’s own video because Itanium has such an interesting history.
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The partnership with RamBus also comes to mind.
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I worked at a system builders at the time the i740 came out, and we discovered an issue with it, the system would freeze when playing solitaire . . . This required an updated driver from intel to fix meaning we the had to add a driver disk to all packages for when a customer needed to reinstall or install windows. An added expense for a small company. We also had to play solitaire on every system we built to ensure it didn`t freeze, The boss was not happy!
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I love Anthony's knowledge but layman terminology and explanation A VERY good video guys, make more like this please
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Itanium. Yes. We bought a ton of HPs with it.
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P4 wasnt bad...alone It was combined with win ME, so it was laggy, but also freezing at totally random times ctrl+alt+del*2
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The i9 11900K would be a good (dis)honorable mention. It had the same core count as the 11700k, used a metric ton of power, and after all of that was still barely competitive with the Zen 3 Ryzen 7 CPUs that predated it.
