Intel cancels 4GHz Pentium 4; will improve it in other ways
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Intel put the last nail in the coffin of the MHz myth this week when the company canceled plans to ship a long-delayed 4GHz Pentium microprocessor so it can instead concentrate on products with "more bang for the buck." The problem is that chips with faster clock speeds are so much hotter than their predecessors that they require special cooling hardware. But the chips don't offer a huge performance boost over earlier versions. So instead of ratcheting up the clock speed, as the company has always done with desktop speeds, Intel will now concentrate on more obscure but effective methods of boosting actual processor performance.