[rurban]

YES! Kill Intel, PPC64 everywhere :)

It will not happen, I know, but "Wouldn't it be nice" was always one of my favorite Beach Boys song (Pet Sounds!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofByti7A4uM

This is THE chance.

[krylon]

I'm upvoting you simply because I have had a pretty good day and because I love "Wouldn't It Be Nice". (In fact, Pet Sounds is an awesome album.)

I a former job, I was working on an application that did a lot of computational geometry, and I remember reading one day that then-current POWER chips could do floating point multiplication and division in a single cycle (plus latency for pipelining, of course)...

[vex]

Why exactly do you care so much?

[rurban]

As POWERfan said.

The intel instruction set is an abomination. You couldn't even thing of something worse, however they managed.

Intel needs competition. Everybody else died away.

PPC64 is on the open, everybody can make one. This is better than the IBM PC revolution, where you could license it to produce competing parts. Also better than the various ARM chips.

We need to break the HW barrier from the last years. CPU speed has stalled, only with new tech, as in the new Z series or Power8 chips Moore's law can be revived.

And there are many more arguments to be excited.

[POWERfan]

I can't speak for the GP, but POWER is a true RISC ISA, and many prefer it just for that reason.

[megablast]

There is no such thing as CISC or RISC anymore, what with micro ops.