Despite the speeds, it will have a lower power density than in some chips found in today's desktops.

It is vastly more efficient to use much slower processors, in terms of the power per computation, and combine those, as opposed to trying to make one go like a bat out of hell.

You literally tune the system from the atoms and molecules to the software at the other end to get the maximum possible benefits.

In Power6, we basically combined everything we could (throw) at it in terms of fundamental atoms and molecules all the way out to what we knew would be the software that would run on top of that system.

You literally can squeeze silicon, and thereby give it properties to make it faster. The thing that is making it run faster is not just that it's smaller but because you're changing its basic physical properties.

The Japanese have a great saying: 'When the student is ready, the Buddha will appear