TBH we've been hovering at or below 4GHz for a decade now. By increasing IPC/core, the impact of that was minimized, but at some point we will see IPC max out. Not sure when or what it might be, though.

Truth in advertising would demand AMD, Intel, and all the others to rate their CPUs in teraflops or another rating that allowed equal comparison. That's why we'll never see it happen. smile



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