Quote Originally Posted by Blauhung View Post
Production will probably C-something, I'd be willing to bet that just about every chip (specially a new uArch) starts out very very slow on early stepping.
Everything I know about engineering( which isn't much) is first make it work, then make it work better(faster,less heat,etc)
My guess is that they start at a slow speed to see if the theory actually works in practice,then look at all the individual components to see any potential flaws and then they start to make it go faster.
Just a guess but maybe closer to the truth than we know.