The magical ~3ghz barrier continues.

Oh well.

you ppl are crazy....argueing with the one below about a chip clockspeed...3ghz or not...my main CPU is 1.1Ghz...

#2 45nm quad-core parts should easily break 3.0Ghz barrier with sane TPD

Maybe, or maybe not. Nowadays it is very diffucult to predict how your clock rate will scale when you move to a smaller process size and it is not just a matter of TDP. A safer prediction would be to say that at 45nm we are likley to see 3GHz chips with TDP below 100W

At the Beijing IDF Intel claimed they would have 80W and 50W versions of Tigerton for blades. No word on what frequency they run at, however. Though for shops were CPU density matters more than raw performance (web farms, for example) it really doesn't matter.

They've been around a while true, but it takes a lot of power, resulting in a lot of heat to break it, unlike breaking 2GHz, which was pretty easy. A 2GHz chip takes very little to cool, where as even Core 2's need some good cooling to get over 3GHz. Athlon 64 just consumes a tremondous amount of power to hit 3.0GHz.

So, every socket gets its own FSB, is that right?

edited for my own stupidity