AM (myname4rwt@jee-male.com) on 7/28/10 wrote:
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>Vincent Diepeveen (diep@xs4all.nl) on 7/27/10 wrote:
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>> And according to the announcement of intel at the time by 2010 we would see a 10Ghz P4.
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>Yes, except that 10 GHz was the goal of original Nehalem project on 65nm AFAIR
>(so presumably due in 2006-07), by 2010 they could well be promising 20 GHz chips I think.
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>And I think Intel didn't even stop at 20 GHz, as ISTR discussing their 30 GHz CPU
>clock rate projection with a few folks.

ROFL. Intel bashers will have this item of canonic dogma
folklore up to 50 GHz by the end of the decade.

I recall Boeing showing off its conceptual plans for first
and second generation SST jetliners. The future didn't
unfold as expected with rising oil prices, and growing
concerns over environmental effects of supersonic travel.
The future wasn't going twice and then three times faster
than a 707 but rather the same general speed but much
more reliably, quietly, and with far greater fuel efficiency.

Priorities change over times. Smart companies change
their plans accordingly and prosper. Dumb companies
disappear or shrink into irrelevence.