What does Intel use?

[PeteRoy]

I once read somewhere that Intel successfully got a CPU to run at 10Ghz.

I'm sure many of you have seen the tomshardware video where he use liquid nitrogen to get a 5ghz P4.

So I wonder what kind of cooling Intel is using to get a cpu to operate at 10Ghz.

I guess it not even a regular cpu, probably a special engineering sample with 500 million transistors.

[enzoR]

was probably a cpu with 10000000 pipes..... running 3v and cooled with liquid heilum or something.

nah.. not quite but i think something along those lines.

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

5ghz aint much. the record for a p4 is 6114mhz.

[PMM]

If I remember right certain parts of the Intel core i.e. maths units are 2x core freq
so if you have 5ghz certain parts are running at 10ghz.

Could be wrong though been along time since I took any interest in Intel.

[saaya]

yes, it was only an alu running at 10ghz and it ran even without a heatsink! but it was probably a very bad performing alu as they never included it into any of their cpus.

im sure you can build a 10ghz cpu right now, the question is how will it perform? ;)

[Crankster]

PeteRoy, if intel had a CPU capable of 10 Ghz would they not release it then?

[caater]

PeteRoy, if intel had a CPU capable of 10 Ghz would they not release it then?

they would release a max of 4.2ghz one to have a slight upper hand vs
competitor. :rolleyes: