I live in a medium-sized Kansas city, and 3G is almost unobtainable. No T-mobile presence (as far as I can tell), no AT&T 3G, poor Verizon and Sprint. The only carrier with solid infrastructure here is US Cellular. (I'm on Sprint, and it's frequently an exercise in patience.)

They're working on it; they have an indigenous light-fighter project, and are co-developing PAK FA with the Russians.

Published benchmarks disagree with your assessment of ARM.

There is exactly zero chance of Trinity being anything other than what it's been announced and demo'd as from day one: L3-less Bulldozer (well, technically Piledriver) with a GPU on-chip. In other words, an incremental successor to Llano.

28nm TSMC ARM is likely this year.

Power7 is fully compatible with the PPC 2.06 spec. How is it not a PPC ISA implementation?

The most powerful general-purpose processor in the world (Power7) is a huge seller for IBM, and is a PowerPC implementation. PPC is also big in telecom applications, and Freescale does a number of fairly high-performance designs for that market.

The PPC used in the AmigaOne X1000 is a PA Semi PA6T - not very fast, designed as a low-power chip, and long-dead. Apple bought the company a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure new PA6T's are not being made. I suppose that speaks volumes about how many X1000's they reasonably expect to sell...

It's a tough question. The Intel Atom has an edge on ARM, but it's not a big one, and while a high-performance ARM chip costs below $20, the Atom is significantly more. On the other hand, right now there are no ARM implementations that are really competitive on the PC front, and probably won't be until ARMv8 (64-bit) chips, or at least until Cortex-A15. A15 chips will probably come out in late 2012 and be a bit faster than the Atom, but a long way from Sandy Bridge and the other current Intel designs.

The US is keeping the B-52 alive until at least 2030, too (although in relatively small numbers.)

While we're playing anecdotal games, it was well below zero Fahrenheit last night when it should be around 10. Global cooling!!!!!!!