Why is N1's linpack score so much higher than droid?

[balazer]

Clock cycle = Instructions per cycle.

A clock cycle surely ain't IPC. It's a time interval, from some moment when the clock rises until the next time the clock rises, one period later (assuming you define your cycles by the rising edge, though that is arbitrary).

If your clock is running at 1 GHz, then there are 1 billion clock cycles in each second.