Intel’s new 14th Gen CPUs arrive on October 17th with up to 6GHz out of the box

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Intel’s new 14th Gen CPUs arrive on October 17th with up to 6GHz out of the box
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I remember when chips first hit 1GHz around 1999. Tech magazines were claiming that we'd hit 7GHz in 5 years.

What they failed to predict is that you start running into major heat issues if you try to go past ~3GHz. Which is why CPU manufacturers started focusing on other ways to improve performance, such as multiple cores and better memory management.