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by exDM69 3588 days ago
Yeah, I assumed you meant that.

That's not something that's intended for consumer hardware, it's a special purpose CPU used in high-end networking hardware. It's been around for a while, the only real news in that was the upstreaming of the LLVM backend code. It did cause some unwarranted rumors, though.

A quick peek at the actual code reveals that it's not a general purpose CPU. A few web searches will tell that it's a custom CPU used in Myricom's LANAI networking products. There's a much older GCC backend and other compiler tools for it available too.