Early 2000s was just cranking frequency higher and higher with longer and longer pipelines. Initially this gave higher performance, but towards the end it mainl

Early 2000s was just cranking frequency higher and higher with longer and longer pipelines. Initially this gave higher performance, but towards the end it mainly just gave higher frequencies. Intel finally gave up on the frequency wars (longer pipelines) and instead concentrated on wider datapath/pipelines. See: Netburst vs Core. I really feel like the changeover needs it's own act.