>Pity. Your statement made it seem like you'd know more in that regard.

Sorry to disappoint you Andreas. I even neglected to notice that the Cell BE was an in order processor until we started to discuss it (you have much better attention and recall of details then I do - not to mention your superior ability to locate information).

As far as ARM goes, I only recently began looking at it. This was primarily due to post on this site.ARM does have some features that hold it back (in order again, therefore zero branch prediction, etc).

As mature RISC architectures go, I still think the PPC is one of the best.

Right now, pricing and availability of suitable hardware are the main obstacles from continued use of these processors.