> Applied Micro doesn't seem to be able to get anything
> to run reasonably fast.

True for their Power Architecture offerings. It seems they can't even get their chips above 1.2 GHz.

> Hopefully we'll still get 2.5GHZ T5s.

I hope so. As we can see with the T4 that went from the originally announced 2.0 GHz down to 1.8 GHz, nothing is set in stone.