Is that really true? Last I heard POWER, a RISC, held the single-threaded speed record and various RISCs had been trading for the single-socket throughput. Bu

Is that really true? Last I heard POWER, a RISC, held the single-threaded speed record and various RISCs had been trading for the single-socket throughput. But of course POWER is very expensive and power hungry so most people at the high end use x86.