Is the X86 architecture good?

[fatslob-:O]

WolfpackN64 said:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2016/03/15/ibms-q4-power-numbers-portend-to-a-potential-comeback-story/#2243ea054700

Given, it's nothing spectacular, but PPC is still in the game.

And I'd rather see a proper RISC architecture than a CISC CPU wanting to be RISC. It's like a hybrid kernel, it wants to be a microkernel but can't get free of the monolithic kernel's roots.

You realize that there are no pure RISC or CISC designs anymore as far as personal electrionics are concerned, right ?