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r_golan_trevize t1_j46een2 wrote

Reply to comment by kkeiper1103 in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek

I should also point out that the steps between 0 to 1 to 2 to 3mhz ghz were not linear at all. 0 to 1mhz ghz took from the dawn of computing to the late 1990s and then we went very quickly from 1 to 3 mhz ghz in the span of just a few years and then we leveled off around 3.4mhz ghz very quickly after that. It wasn't really linear at all.

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seiggy t1_j46s4xa wrote

Think you're confusing 1-3MHz with 1MHz-3GHz. In the 1990's, chipsets were running in the 100's of MHz. The first 1Mhz chip was in the 1970's, the first commercial PC, the Altair 8800 used a 2MHz Intel 8080. The original IBM PC in 1981 released with a 4.77 MHz CPU. In 1995, the Intel P5 was running at 100MHz, and in 2000 AMD released the first 1 GHz CPU.

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r_golan_trevize t1_j46sb72 wrote

Yeah, I mixed up mhz and ghz for the unpteenth time typing this stuff out.

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