While Intel and AMD continue to duke it out on the CPU front, the guys at IBM have unveiled a new dual-core processor that can hit 4.7GHz without sucking up so much power. To be more exact, the Power6 has just two cores, but both of them run at a blistering 4.7GHz - 2.5 times faster than the speediest Power5+ processor. The Power6 also has double the bandwidth and over four times as much cache as the Power5+. Because the Power6 is based on 65nm silicon-on-insulator process technology, IBM boasts the new chip "doubles the speed of the previous generation POWER5 while using nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cool it." To accommodate its new hotness, IBM has also introduced a new server: the System p 570. According to IBM, this machine "claims the No.1 spots in the four most widely used performance benchmarks for Unix servers - SPECint2006, SPECfp2006, SPECjbb2005 and TPC-C"-a first for a single system. Perhaps someone at Apple right now is smacking their forehead as they yell out "doh!" :-)

Quoted from : TechAmok

More Info here : IBM Press Room

Hmm.. IBM did it again. I wonder if Intel or AMD could do such thing to come out with super proc like this. Solute IBM... 

Obviously the authors are amateurs... the Power6 is for big-iron machines (Sparc, Itanium etc) not desktops/laptops why would Apple be interested?

1. It can reach 4.7Ghz mainly because it's ALU is in-order; FPU is OOE
2. IBM previously said it could easily hit 5Ghz and above