What happened to 4GHz?

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It seems that both Intel and AMD are staying in the 2GHz range, and just creating different types of processors now. Does anybody know if either company plans to increase clock speed? Or will they just keep adding cores?
 
The only processor that was above 3Ghz was the Pentium 4/Celeron that used the NetBurst architecture. Besides that, everything has been under 3Ghz.

In my opinion, i think that they will raise the clock speed slightly, but i dont think they'll break 4Ghz anytime soon.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
The only processor that was above 3Ghz was the Pentium 4/Celeron
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Well those were their only desktop processors for a while.

I seem to remember a lot of hype about how Intel could get all the way up to like 3.8GHz, but never quite to 4GHz....do you know what I am talking about?
 
QACJared said:
Yea i do remember, But Clock speed aint the most important thing.
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I understand that quite well....trust me, I am not as stupid as I act.:D

What do you think that the future for processors is? 8 cores at 2GHz? 2 cores at 5GHz?
 
AMD gs player said:
well quad core will be interesting and the reason y they havent gone up that high is nothing requires that much clock speed
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I dont think thats so much the reason...

From what i've heard, the reason why they dont sell 4Ghz CPU's is because the thermal dissipation is too great. In other words, it produces too much heat.
 
fade2green514 said:
the inquirer. ahhh...
remember when they said Pentium V was soon to come and it would be clocked at 10ghz... hahaha...HAHAHA
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yeah, but think about it... a drop in process size will normally allow you to chase higher clocks... its not dumb to think that this could be true.

i dont take what they say as gospel but its sensible enough reasoning to me. also, when someone says something completely OTT like P5=10Ghz would you honestly believe that especially now that we know that P5 will never exist?
 
well basically if you think about it a computer is nothing more that tiny little circuits. the smaller they can make them the more they can add and thusly the faster they make it. when we can have molecules act as circuits and transitors then we can make exceptionally small and fast computer
 
I think that computers will start using fibre optics and more light things, as well as switching from binary to maybe octal, or decimal, or hex
 
decimals are just numbers


a computer does nothing more than tell you if something is on or off thusly 1s and 0s thusly binary
 
Impr3ssiv3 said:
decimals are just numbers
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Well of course they are. I was talking about the decimal system.


a computer does nothing more than tell you if something is on or off thusly 1s and 0s thusly binary
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Right now, that is what it does. I am talking about the future to come.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
In my opinion, i think that they will raise the clock speed slightly, but i dont think they'll break 4Ghz anytime soon.
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in Mid/Early 07, Intel will release their quad-core processors... (2 dual-core conroes in one...)
to rival that AMD is said to hit around 4GHz with the dual-core FX...
 
Impr3ssiv3 said:
well basically if you think about it a computer is nothing more that tiny little circuits. the smaller they can make them the more they can add and thusly the faster they make it. when we can have molecules act as circuits and transitors then we can make exceptionally small and fast computer
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Molecules are circuits. Each molecule of silicon in the core of a CPU acts as part of the larger circuit. So your that theory doesnt make much sense, because since molecules make up everything... well, molecules are already acting as ciruits.
 
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