> ... Apparently economically that didn't make sense for Intel because you'd have to re-create virtually a whole industry that is based on clocked chips.
Also you'd have to invent a sales/marketing scheme as an alternative to the existing one that is based on increasing clock rates. GHz is to the PC what HP (horsepower) is to the car. That might come to an end obviously but now at least we have cores.
> Also you'd have to invent a sales/marketing scheme as an alternative to the existing one that is based on increasing clock rates. GHz is to the PC what HP (horsepower) is to the car.
The GHz race has been over for a long time. Since Intel Core (and AMD Zen, I think; at least AMD Bulldozer had in my opinion a different design philosophy), it is all about smarter cores that do more in less clock steps. Also since AMD Zen, the "number of core race" has regained traction. Finally, in particular Intel tries to promote extra-wide SIMD instructions (AVX-512).
going back to the car analogy, ghz is more like engine displacement or cylinders. they measure an implementation detail of an engine, not the output such as power (HP) or torque. I'd imagine that cpus will be compared on benchmark scores, which is already being done now.
> ... Apparently economically that didn't make sense for Intel because you'd have to re-create virtually a whole industry that is based on clocked chips.
Also you'd have to invent a sales/marketing scheme as an alternative to the existing one that is based on increasing clock rates. GHz is to the PC what HP (horsepower) is to the car. That might come to an end obviously but now at least we have cores.