<em>“There are two major products that came from Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.”</em> – <strong><a href="http://www.lemoda.net/people/jeremy-s-anderson/" target="_blank">Jeremy S. Anderson</a></strong>. <p> Ready for some radical, left-field (not to say left-wing) thinking? Believe in free love, sharing, and open markets? Step right this way. We’ve got something for you. <p> Oh, goody. It’s another new microprocessor instruction set. <p> The great minds at the University of California at Berkeley (that’s “Cal” to insiders) have added a lot to our community over the years. Berkeley was the source of some early RISC processor research and the birthplace of Sun’s famous SPARC processor. And its Big Kahuna, Dr. David A. Patterson, PhD., is professor (and former chair) of Computer Science at Berkeley, as well as being an IEEE and ACM Fellow and recipient of the John von Neumann Medal. You may know him as the Patterson in Hennessy & Patterson, authors of the <strong><a href="http://amzn.com/012383872X" target="_blank">authoritative computer design bible</a></strong>. A real computer nerd, in other words.