I have pretty much ignored the 476FP.
Neat core. LSI has them running at 1.8 GHz (200MHz faster than IBM's original announcement). Not sure how they did that when IBM's L2 cache operates at 800MHz and has a maximum 2:1 CPU clock ratio.
Low wattage draw too.
A four core system with the L2 cache cores and the MPIC interupt controller, and addition I/O (PCIe, networking, USB, etc) would make a nice system,
But since we can not afford to get IBM to manufacture a semi-custom IC for us, I guess that is out of reach.

Correction = LSI lists processors "running at up to 2GHz".

Any idea why IBM does not offer this in a sandard product?

[ Edited by Jim 15.05.2013 - 03:34 ]