The Pentium Pro and eventually the AMD64 chips equalled or bested the workstations on many tasks by the end of the 90's and early 2000s. But the Itanium processor distracted them from even competing. SGI for example had at least one high-end MIPS processor under development (iirc "the beast") and they stopped the project and later were trying to ship Itanium servers. HP threw the towel in and joined forces with Intel.
Here is an article from 1999 on Sun booting SunOS on Itanium:
Itanium was a huge misdirection and distraction for everyone in the workstation business and basically put them in such a bad spot they failed to even compete with Intel x86 past 2000 or so in any real way.
Here is an article from 1999 on Sun booting SunOS on Itanium:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/sun-boots-solaris-on-itanium-h...
Compaq stopped making Alpha servers and switched to Itanium:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha
Itanium was a huge misdirection and distraction for everyone in the workstation business and basically put them in such a bad spot they failed to even compete with Intel x86 past 2000 or so in any real way.