It wasn't that slow a clock speed at the time of announcement, a smidge behind Intel and AMD at the time. They both had 600+ MHz chips then. But things really h

It wasn't that slow a clock speed at the time of announcement, a smidge behind Intel and AMD at the time. They both had 600+ MHz chips then. But things really heated up and by March 2000 you could get a 1Ghz processor and of course P4 was all about clock speeds so things changed rapidly. PPC took a few more years to get to 1GHz.