IBM hasn't released the specs. The fact that IBM can fab these with 3 cores, SMT, Altivec and at 3.2Ghz leads me to believe these are low complexity microprocessors designed to do relatively simple tasks. We need to more more about the inflight instruction and the queue/dispatch of instructions before we can tell what "grunt" it has
Warning - Obligatory car analogy coming.
An 8 cylinder motor can derive max horsepower and torque at as little as 5500rpm. A Honda Vtec engine gets maximum horsepower at 8000rpm. If you believed that engine speed was the end-all-be-all of performance then you would cash out for the vtec and be miffed when the 8 cylinder left you in the dust. Cycles don't tell us anything...what we can do with "each" cycle is of paramount importance.
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