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by usrusr 1674 days ago
Sounds like an architecture full of features you'd like to avoid when you want to run on battery, run as many of them in a datacenter of a given heat dissipation capacity or simply when you're big enough to tailor a CPU design to your needs because you can buy from a chip manufacturing as a service company. Truly an architecture for a different century.
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Most company can't afford to make custom chip at 7 nm.

The IBM Power is one implementation of the Power ISA.

The chips used on the mars rovers and nintendo Wii as ppc as well.