Official Wii U Thread!: Pokemon Rubmle U coming to Wii U

[DanneSandin]

Pokemonbrawlvg said:
Rumor: Another round of specific details on Wii U specs

- based on the IBM 710 Express chip
- underclocked at 3 GHz
- comes with 4 cores and 8 threads
- 20X faster than the chip found in the Wii
- made by IBM and is based on their POWER 7 architecture
- built on 45nm
- the standard has 6 cores and runs at speeds of up to 3.7 GHz
- 710 Express chip can also execute 4 threads per core at the same
- Nintendo has scaled this down for Wii U
- threads per core will go down from 4 to 2
- roughly “around 50% more powerful than current gen systems”

http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=178080#shine

Can some one please explain to me what all of this measn? =P I'm not a teachy ^^