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Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com)
Intel will turn 50 next month, so to celebrate that, its CPUs are hitting 5.0 GHz for the first time, it said. At Computex event in Taiwan this week, the chipmaker announced the limited edition 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8086K processor, the first-ever CPU from the company with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency. From a report: Intel, of course, is the world's biggest chip maker, and its fortunes are wedded to the success of the personal computer. "As we transition to the data-centric era, the PC remains a critical facet of Intel's business, and it's an area where we believe there are still so many opportunities ahead," Bryant said. "Today, at Computex in Taipei, I shared our vision for the future of the PC and introduced a wide range of new technologies that will help us and the broader ecosystem make this future a reality. One that transforms the PC from a simple computer into a platform that can power every person's greatest contribution."
That's cool, but comparing clock speed between different processor architectures is mostly meaningless.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
POWER6 was at 5 GHz in 2008
If that's verbatim, where is it?
The article says "first-ever CPU with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency" which was crafted to be correct on a technicality (it's not the base clock rate).
The summary says "its CPUs are hitting 5.0 GHz for the first time"
And Intel doesn't make SPARC chips, so that's also correct.
There isn't a direct quote on this point, so it may be the writer that said this wording, not the person being quoted. Meanwhile, the title is accurate, with "its CPUs hit 5.0 GHz", not it is the first to hit 5.0Ghz. As mentioned, the Sparc has had 5.0ghz, but AMD also has: https://www.anandtech.com/show/8316/amds-5-ghz-turbo-cpu-in-retail-the-fx9590-and-asrock-990fx-extreme9-review.
Intel: https://newsroom.intel.com/edi...
"the first Intel processor with a 5.0 GHz turbo frequency"
Intel actually qualifies their statement and all the reporters parroted it without the qualification. So basically, just another news day.
Venturebeat: https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
"the first-ever CPU with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency, said Intel’s Gregory Bryant"
CNET: https://www.cnet.com/news/inte... ...
"the first-ever CPU with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency."
I'm both old enough to remember those and young enough to remember how I thought it was a dumb idea. Thankfully processors change clock speed based on actual load now.
Turbo button was for legacy compatibility, A lot of old games used cycle based timing, so on a faster cpu the game ran too fast. Hit the turbo button to slow down cpu and voila, scaling based on load wouldn't work for that use.
Or you can get the Workstation Xeon they just showed off that runs 28 cores at 5GHz on all cores. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-28-core-5-ghz,37201.html
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
"Intel will turn 50 next month, so to celebrate that, its CPUs are hitting 5.0 GHz for the first time, it said. At Computex event in Taiwan this week, the chipmaker announced the limited edition 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8086K processor, the first-ever CPU from the company with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency. "
Noone is claiming "first ever", they are claiming " Intel's first ever".
And IBM gave that to us over 10 years ago with their POWER6 CPUs:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...