even though x86 ISA had lots of drawbacks but software based on this ISA were already huge and transition to RISC ISA costs more. Intel's IA-64 and AMD's x86-64 IA-64 (Itanic) == Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) + very long instruction word(VLIW) ISA + predication , speculative loading , other performance enhnacing technique but it had compatibilty issue with x86 and left big hol..