Today's quad-core processors are faster than a single-core, 15 GHz NetBurst would have been. Even the dual-cores are close.
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15GHZ Pentium "5"
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velocityg4
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When multi-tasking CPU intensive apps or using apps that can efficiently utilize all cores. As many just use a single core a 15Ghz NetBurst would trounce the heftiest i7's with those programs.
Though for the most part it seems software requirements have slowed as well, otherwise the iPad would not be possible. A 3Ghz P4 with 1GB of RAM and a 40GB Hard Drive running XP will still quickly do tasks that many people ask out of a computer.
We're Q3 2010; where's the 15GHZ processor?
'Pentium' was not only a platform/architecture, but its just a marketing label.
For all I care, they can call the next CPU Pentium 5; though it might bring a negative ring to it. Regardless, I'm looking at you Intel to give me a 15 GHZ per core processor! And it better use 65W.
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'Pentium' was not only a platform/architecture, but its just a marketing label.
For all I care, they can call the next CPU Pentium 5; though it might bring a negative ring to it. Regardless, I'm looking at you Intel to give me a 15 GHZ per core processor! And it better use 65W.
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dmr727
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I'm sure they won't - the Pentium 4 was a slow, miserable disaster of a CPU. When companies crap the bed that bad - it's time for a complete name change!
True.
But the Pentium 4 started out pretty strong and good. It wasn't truly until AMD unleash their AMD64 Althlons and Windows XP 64bit that the Pentium 4 started showing limitation.
Pentium, Pentium II, and Pentium III were decent.
Too bad the last batch of P4's ruined the Pentium brand. It shows it takes billions to develop a brand, and how quickly it can get tarnish by a few bad apples.
Looking back it makes me wonder, did Intel seriously think this 15GHz chip was going to happen? The dude must have known that the limits of out of order and speculative execution would imply that the future belonged to single chip multiprocessors. And beyond that, could he seriously have been so blind to the power and heat problems that were up ahead? So was he really that shortsighted, or was he being disingenuous?