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by Earw0rm
563 days ago
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The problem with Netburst was the clock speed wall. They designed it with a view to continued doubling which has been a trend up until then. It turns out once you go past 3GHz improvements are much, much slower. We hit 3GHz in 2003. If you go back ten years from that, the top speed available was 66MHz, ten years before that and it was 8MHz. Fast forward 20 years and we're just barely scraping 6GHz. |
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That would give us a hypothetical Pentium 4 at 768GHz today. Which, Netburst or no, would wipe the floor with the fastest available multi-core chip.
While also putting out enough heat energy to keep a small town in Northern Canada warm all winter long.