Quote Originally Posted by madcho View Post
Never count on a penryn @3.6ghz this year
It depends of K10 performance and frequency. If Intel needs 3.6GHz to counter K10, I am pretty sure we'll see a 3.67GHz this year. But if they don't need, they will sell lower clocked Core2's as long as they can milk money.

Quote Originally Posted by nn_step
if the 286, 386, 486, and (original) Pentium were made on the same process, they would have all run at exactly the same clock speed.
Again, you are talking nonsense. 286, 386, 486 and Pentium are so much different. They have different stages and number of stages, so their per stage propagated delay is different and their frequency can't be the same.