pretty impressive that FinFET has finally surpassed planar transistor clocks... just in time for the change to GAAFET! ;) but seriously I heard arguments for a

pretty impressive that FinFET has finally surpassed planar transistor clocks... just in time for the change to GAAFET! ;) but seriously I heard arguments for a long time that bulldozer would probably be the highest-clocking LN2 CPU ever built, because of the combination of planar transistors and a frequency-optimized architecture. It seems like we stalled around 5 GHz forever with FinFET, and then 10ESF/Intel 7 just casually blows most of the way to 6 GHz in pretty much a single generation.