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> You're only locked in if your personal requirements mandate the smallest lithography process and the highest clock speed.

I'm pretty sure POWER still fulfills requirements for "highest clock speed", not x86/x64. That might be based on outdated information, though; I just recall POWER being the first to hit 5GHz CPU clock speeds even in spite of IBM's lithographic processes lagging behind Intel's.




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