Some time ago , when in intel road map reigned the netBurst architecture , company representatives extended their forecasts: after some year the processors will reach certain frequency. After some time it was possible to meet in their statements the frequencies value , measured by ten gigahertz.
Actually, the growth in prescott processors frequencies was near the 4.0 GHz, and since all new intel processors models work at the default frequencies less than 3.0 GHz. Only recent high end models core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme began to reach this value. It is obvious that 45 nm processors generation penryn will have frequencies more than 3.0 GHz, if we speak about the high end models.
As reports associate, in recent presentation about the trends in computer industry development and Microsoft corporation , Bill Gates recognized the fact that the increase in the processors performance will be achieved due to strengthening of parallelism, but not due to the growth in the clock frequencies. According to the estimations of Mr. Gates, even through the fifth-sixth years , the processors frequency will reach 10 GHz.