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IBM shipped a 5.2 GHz chip for it's mainframes over 2 years ago. This is not the first.

• CountHackulus 13y ago
  Exactly, this is the first ever 5GHz x86 chip. The title is factually inaccurate.
  • ignostic 13y ago
    That's not surprising, given the title comes from and links to a press release.
• itcmcgrath 13y ago
  Indeed. We have a few zEnterprise systems in our corp data center (geeky enough looking that I want one in my basement), running with 5.5GHz chips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z
• AnthonyMouse 13y ago
  They didn't ship the first 64-bit CPU to run Windows either. Windows NT ran on Alpha (among other architectures). Granted the OS was still 32-bit, but the CPU wasn't. But what do you expect from a press release? It's written by marketing trolls, not engineers.
  • marshray 13y ago
    AMD literally defined the 64-bit x86 architecture that everyone (including Intel) uses today. That's "first".