> Is there anything comparable surviving today? Surviving? No. The most recent is arguably Sun's Rock processor, which was one of the final nails in their coff

> Is there anything comparable surviving today? Surviving? No. The most recent is arguably Sun's Rock processor, which was one of the final nails in their coffin, was quite an i432 redux. It promised all sorts of hardware support for transactions and other features that Sun thought would make it a killer chip, was rumoured to tape out requiring 1 kW of power for mediocre performance, and Oracle killed it when they saw how dysfunctional it was.