> This is marketing you are talking about.

Yes, of course. But also marketing can include false information and even lies. That doesn't make it venial just because it's marketing.

> The terms chip and core will be interchangeable!

Not to anyone who knows a little about those things, like the people questioning IBM and getting those idiotic replies in return.

> They would't want all the capabilities of the POWER7 cores

...or chips.

> so it could be 3 stripped back cores.

Yes, it could be, like the PPC970 has 1 stripped back POWER4 core. But I would also have objected to statements like "G5 Mac uses same POWER4 chips". It's simply misleading. And we'll see how much POWER7 "processor tech" the Wii U CPU will really pack apart from the eDRAM.