[digi_owl]

Not quite about that last part. Clock rates have been more or less stationary over the last decade or so. What Intel has been focusing on for some time is cache, and how to practically always have the right data in the cache at the right time. but yes, having more transistors to work with do allow them to pack more cache onto the die.

[noir_lord]

Yeah that wasn't perhaps very clear, I meant historically they ramped the clock up (back in the P4 days).

[digi_owl]

And ran into a brick wall, iirc.