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Intel has spent years and billions of dollars convincing consumers that megahertz matters, and today PC buyers are trained to look for systems with higher speed processors--even if the raw clock speed of the chip isn't the primary driver of performance.
PS2's central processor, a 128-bit microprocessor developed by Sony and Toshiba, has twice the raw number-crunching power of Intel's most advanced Pentium chip used in professional desktop computers.