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!!!!!!!

Ethiopia was ruled by a rather brutal Communist regime (the Derg) from the 70's until the 90's. Since the partial move to democracy and free markets, they've had significant economic growth.

"bizarre perversions of the once innocent C language"

You mean C++?

What other open-source, open-development mobile OS is there? Android is just regular code dumps from Google and Tizen barely exists...

But with the added perk of increased cache footprint.

Bada isn't based on Linux, despite what Wikipedia says. It uses the Mentor Nucleus microkernel with a custom Samsung userland.

Also, it's been officially announced that Bada is being replaced with Tizen.

You mean loading up my codebase with #ifdefs to get around bullshit like endianness and integer length? "C/C++ is portable" is a myth.

I never said that ARM would run x86 software, which is what your links dispute. I merely said that ARM would support the traditional desktop UI, as has been demo'd and stated by Microsoft repeatedly.