>The real problem was Intel's focus on frequency above all else at the time. They were demoing I think a 10 GHz processor at Intel Developer Forum at one point.

>The real problem was Intel's focus on frequency above all else at the time. They were demoing I think a 10 GHz processor at Intel Developer Forum at one point. I don't know if they demoed that or not, but I can remember early claims in the press that they expected the P4/Netburst architecture to scale to 10GHz.