CPU/Mobo Peak into Future of CPU @ ExtremeTech

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Tomorrow's CPUs Today
July 20, 2005

By Nick Stam

It's no secret that AMD and Intel have struggled to increase clock speeds lately. In early 2004, Intel estimated the Prescott processor would quickly rev to 5 GHz in its 90-nm manufacturing process. But initial 3-GHz chips ran wicked hot, dissipating over 90 watts (and 3.8-GHz Prescotts hit 115W). Eventually, Intel realized it needed to shift focus from pushing gigahertz to designing chips with two or more processor cores, improving heat dissipation, and other ways to keep pushing the market forwards.

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Yeah that was a good article!
There's another recent one too which deconstructs what a microprocessor is all about. CPUs Up Close it's called. A nice, interesting read.

 

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Thanx for the links, Quad & tracer! :hap2: