Intel's First 4.0 GHz Pentium: Pentium Gold G5620 Listed At Retail
A number of European retailers have started listing new Celeron and the Pentium Gold-branded processors, which indicates that the world's largest CPU supplier is about to formally announce the products. Topping the list of new processors is the Pentium G5620, which happens to be Intel's first Pentium-branded CPU clocked at 4 GHz.
[...] According to Germany-based ISO Datentechnik and Finland-based Futureport online stores, the new CPUs from Intel will be available starting from early March. But since that information does not come directly from Intel, it may not be completely accurate.
Intel originally planned to release its Pentium 4 processors based on the NetBurst microarchitecture and clocked at 4 GHz sometime in the middle of the previous decade. At some point, Intel stopped development of its Tejas generation of NetBurst processors cancelling all the products in the lineup, then the company cancelled release of Pentium 4 4.0 GHz CPUs featuring the Prescott, and the Prescott 2M designs due in 2005 – 2006. Later on the company released numerous Core-branded processors clocked at 4.0 GHz and higher, but frequencies of Pentiums topped at 3.8 GHz.
A hollow achievement, but interesting nonetheless.
Also at Tom's Hardware.
See also: Et Tu, Pentiums? GPU-Disabled Pentium Gold G5600F Appears
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:11PM (1 child)
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by RamiK on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:20PM
Technically they can stick an in-order core running the kernel along with dozens of OOO cores of varying power profiles running system and user threads in appropriate ring isolation. i.e. you'd have a network driver and a file-system service sharing a low-power core, and a user's mail client waiting in its own low-power core, never to share the same cores (physically separated) or memory access (handled by the microkernel running in the in-order chip).
But that's years away.
compiling...