Big Blue unveils 'world's fastest' microchip - 5.2 gigahertz!!!

[JesterJJZ]

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20100901/BUSINESS01/9010328

IBM Corp. is announcing today that the chips inside its latest mainframe computer boast the fastest clock speed of any processors out there.

They make it down just down the road!

 

[eponym]

 

[CaoCao]

clock means nothing, what's the IPC?

 

[VirtualRain]

I wonder if they are a drop-in replacement for my Quad?

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

Is this going to be in the new PowerBook G5?