An old-timer at heart
Lots of GHz, not much to show for it. You overheat over nothing and make noise so everyone knows you're working.
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An old-timer at heart
Lots of GHz, not much to show for it. You overheat over nothing and make noise so everyone knows you're working.
The Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading (2004) bet everything on clock speed: Intel even promised 10 GHz, but heat forced it to drop the plan. One version earned the nickname "PresHot". Still, its Hyper-Threading, which makes one core look like two, lives on in many processors today.