I read about this just earlier today in the San Jose Mercury News...
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercuryne...ss/4280761.htm
I love this part: "The PowerPC 970 chip will run at a speed of 1.8 gigahertz and also comes with a high-speed data freeway known as a bus." Oh Emm Gee...
I am very cool with PPC hardware, it's just Apple's OS(es) that I take issue with. After seeing (and getting a rather extended lecture about) the 6"x6" CPU for IBM's z900, I have a lot of respect for IBM and their hardware.
If we're talking about 64bit stuff, how about x86-64 (AMD's Hammer series) vs. IA-64 (Intel's Itanium)? I know Joe Ross hates the thought of x86-64, and I hate the thought of an Intel specific arch (I don't write asm, in any way shape or form), but what about everyone else?