Thank you for saying this. The amount of hype RISC gets in unbelievable. It is especially irritating because almost every major RISC design which came out of the 1980s and early 1990s failed in the market. PA RISC is dead. PowerPC, MIPS and Spark are either on life support or only used in cheap low cost or maybe low power products. I believe IBM's Power architecture is still going but I suspect it's slower than AMD's and Intel's x86 chips (IBM does not publish SPEC CPU Benchmark results which is not a good sign).

Basically, I have noticed that people have been claiming RISC is the best for decades and yet real RISC architectures failed to beat x86's performance. Even worse, most of the RISC workstation and server makers exited the business, went bankrupt, or only sell systems to legacy customers who have not migrated to x86.