So long as one puts big, fat "giga-money-losing" and "humiliating" disclaimers on "success", then yes.
Vs. - what if, instead of Itanium, Intel had more-quietly designed and delivered good, high-performance x86-64 CPU's? I'm thinking that, by bottom-line metrics, would have been a vastly more successful business strategy.
So long as one puts big, fat "giga-money-losing" and "humiliating" disclaimers on "success", then yes.
Vs. - what if, instead of Itanium, Intel had more-quietly designed and delivered good, high-performance x86-64 CPU's? I'm thinking that, by bottom-line metrics, would have been a vastly more successful business strategy.