I'm a fan of the Mill processor design, I'd love to see that architecture take off - a total rethink of the relationship of instruction sets to silicon.

I just love it when a designer takes an understood problem space and alters the rulebook to give himself advantages that his competition would never allow themselves to have. The Mill's design seems like that. It's totally bananas, each chip family produced will have randomly assigned opcodes assigned for a tailored set of operations.

Beyond getting working chips, the Mill's biggest hurdle will be to get compiler toolchains to target it's ISA. Such a huge gamble.