The Myth of GHz
Ok, a little back ground on me, For 11 years I worked in the Semiconductor industry.
In particuliar. I worked for a Capital Eqipment Manufactorer Speedfam. who made polishers. Before that I worked at a Small Epi Company that no longer exists called Lawrence Semiconductor Labs.
While at Lawrence, since it was a small outsourced company, we would get odd jobs in materials to run tests on. So interesting Ideas as Silicon on Insulator, and Silicon on Sapphire experiments were done. This was also during the stages of mass transistion from TTl technologies to CMos. and mos technologies were taking place. although most of your processors were already mos.
Ok, why the backgroud?? well I was directly in the industry when it transistion from 486 to pentium, pentium 2, pentium 3 (which is a very important part of the GHz myth) and pentium 4 processors. actually all the way up to 3 years ago when I was layed off with the big down turn.
But first lets start off with something that most people know a little about. An Engine.
I have 2 engines. side by side the Engines them selves are Identical one is running at 8500 RPM and the other is running at 9000 RPM. with the engines in the vehicles which car would be traveling the fastest velocity.
Catch you next time. with the rest of the story.