Future CPUs & 2GHz

The CPU market has been fairly calm for a while since Intel and AMD both broke by 1GHz and Intel released their P4 which was met with a little less than stellar reviews. Well here's an article on JC's that has a look at the newest offerings. AMD pushing 1.33GHz and Intel at 1.7GHz (But they crank it up to 2GHz) Thanks Tech-Report

In a matter of days, Advanced Micro Devices is expected to release The Next Athlon. A month later, Intel Corp. will follow up in an attempt to reclaim the title of speed champ, announcing The Next Pentium (4, to be precise). The Athlon, AMD's implicitly parallel µarchtitecure, will run at a 1.33GHz frequency (also 1.30GHz, and there's more details coming on that). Intel's more explicitly parallel (and generally more scalar) µarchitecture is, according to reviewers and hardware experts, geared towards achieving higher clock frequencies -- such as 1.70GHz in this case -- at the expense of lower average ipc (less per-clock performance) in general.