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15GHZ Pentium "5"

sushi said:
Most interesting thread resurrection.

A 15Ghz P5 next year. Wow! Forgot just how intense the Ghz wars were.

Thankfully we've gotten beyond that.

Still, a 5Ghz PDA would be nice! :)
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Keep in mind iPhone has a faster processor than the high end computers of 10 years ago... In 10 years you never know what will happen.

However 4ghz mass production is not even achieved yet...
 
Consultant said:
Keep in mind iPhone has a faster processor than the high end computers of 10 years ago... In 10 years you never know what will happen.
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True, the iPhone has more capability in many areas such as processing, RAM, total storage space, graphics, interface, etc. than computers 10 years ago!

And advancements will only become faster! :)
 
I think the original article was based on speeding up the Pentium 4 core as fast as possible.

What changed EVERYTHING was Intel's decision to use the Pentium III-M core with its large on-die L2 memory cache as the basis for its future CPU architecture--the result was the breakthrough Core 2 CPU family, which offered a huge leap up in performance compared to even the Pentium 4 but with much lower power consumption.
 
SactoGuy18 said:
I think the original article was based on speeding up the Pentium 4 core as fast as possible.

What changed EVERYTHING was Intel's decision to use the Pentium III-M core with its large on-die L2 memory cache as the basis for its future CPU architecture--the result was the breakthrough Core 2 CPU family, which offered a huge leap up in performance compared to even the Pentium 4 but with much lower power consumption.
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No, what changed EVERYTHING was leakage. Intel spent a good long time at 3GHz and never could get past it. If you remember, there was about 2 years where the Earth stood still.

Core 2 was plan B.

That's one of the things about this quote that I find most nefarious-- he made these comments in October 2002 when they were already running at the 3GHz wall. He knew. In the previous 2 years, they'd doubled clock rates. Over the next two years they manage to gain 20%. This was an attempt to appear out in front of AMD, plain and simple. He lied to undercut a competitor.
 
sorry

don't mean to bump this thread again, but where the hell are our pentium 5's?
 
Who would've thought that 8 years later we'd still be hovering around 3Ghz, and in fact that most PCs would be running in the 2-3GHz range?
 
Ha - this is probably one of the reasons why macs gained so much market share: the ghz gap just kind of stalled.
 
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