I find it incredibly dishonest of Adapteva to equate it to a "theoretical 45 GHz CPU". There are much better ways to talk about the performance level of their hardware than that metric, especially given the rest of the text in their Kickstarter pitch is aimed at people who need to inherently understand the hardware's execution model in order to program it effectively.
The computing industry has established language and metrics to discuss computing performance and, while the waters often get muddied when the hardware is wide, that's a step too far.
The computing industry has established language and metrics to discuss computing performance and, while the waters often get muddied when the hardware is wide, that's a step too far.