> You are better informed then me, I wasn't aware that the anticipated
> performance was that low.

Yeah, I've been mentioning the anticipated Krait performance for the last 1.5 years here on MorphZone :-)

> If they sucessfully clock the A15 higher then 1.7 GHz or manage to double the cores
> without a significant speed decrease, then this core is likely to dominate for quite awhile.

Yes, absolutely. I doubt Apple will go above 1.5 GHz dual-Swift anytime soon, but 1.7 GHz quad-Krait is already there in the APQ8064 (and soon to come MPQ8064).