where are the pentium 5's?

[Kenny S]

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?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Have you asked Intel?

 

[Kenny S]

Yes!

Look here:
http://www.intel.com/products/roadmap/index.htm?iid=TechTrends+featured_roadmap&


shouldnt there be a Pentium 5@ 5ghz in 2005?

I remember a time when new CPUs came out each few months...

have they reached a barrier?

 

[Al Smith]

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.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The pentium 5's do not exist and may never exist.

Intel has stopped marketing the processor with MHz/GHz speeds . They use a
newer numbering scheme.

Do not expect 10Ghz chips soon! Intel is now focused on creating multi-core
chips. That is to say: more than one "physical" processor on the same
chip.