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 ## Motivation
 
-Power ISA currently has some issues with its atomic operations support:
+Power ISA currently has some issues with its atomic operations support,
+which are exacerbated by 3D Data structure processing needing
+of the order of 10^5 or greater SMP atomic locks per second.
 
 ### Power ISA's current atomic operations are inefficient