Re: where are the pentium 5's?

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From: Al Smith (invalid_at_address.com)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:43:45 GMT

> I think the speeds of CPUs are not increasing like they did before...
>
> I mean we are stuck for some time with Pentium 4s that are 3.8 ghz.
>
> where are the pentium 5's?
>
> Where are the 10 Ghz chips?

Intel painted themselves into a corner. They've been marketing
their CPUs on the basis of megahertz speeds. Higher is presented
in their ads as better. Now they've reached a situation where they
can't get much faster without having their CPUs generate more heat
than can easily be handled. They are in the process of taking a
different approach to designing (and marketing) their processors,
one that imitates the approach of AMD. You won't be hearing as
much about increased megahertz speeds from Intel from now on.

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