Quote Originally Posted by gOJDO View Post
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.


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.
I really think they can''t. 45nm from intel don't use immersion, and 4ghz penryn have desapered from intel roadmap.

45nm frequency are lower as expected.

Intel don't want let their core duo higher than 3ghz, because core 2 duo is gonna 'die.' Core2 can go 3.6 i'm pretty sure of this.

Intel don't want c2d get better score than c2q. Tha'ts why intel will not release 3ghz+ c2d.

Intel can't run 45nm penryn Quad higher 3.33ghz, if it was true, intel should have showed us.

QX6800 is already beyond the limit of a normal CPU. Too much power wasted.

If you could go 3.6ghz with a kenfield easy with stock volt, i would agree that, but it's impossible.