Intel was also being at least a bit disingenuous in public at the time although they probably also thought they could make those frequencies work. But a very se

Intel was also being at least a bit disingenuous in public at the time although they probably also thought they could make those frequencies work. But a very senior Intel exec told me, at the time IBM was showering them with a lot of public snark, that of course they new about the upcoming issues but Microsoft was so worried about multicore scalability that Intel had to play along.