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During the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) here this week, Intel Corp. plans to disclose several technologies that will make good on its promise to deliver 10-GHz or faster microprocessors by the end of this decade.

In separate papers at ISSCC, Intel plans to describe several “building blocks” to enable high-speed, low-power processors. Among the “building blocks” include a 3.5-GHz multiphase clock generator, a 5-GHz floating point multiply and accumulate unit, and so-called “sleep transistors” for use in low-power applications, according to the company.

It also plans to give separate papers on “special-purpose” hardware blocks, such as a TCP/IP offload engine and an 8-gigabit-per-second, simultaneous bi-directional I/O technology designed to boost the speeds of its chip-to-chip bus technology, dubbed PCI Express.

These technologies are not being offered by Intel right now, but they do provide a sneak preview of the company's future roadmap. At present, Intel is shipping chips, based on its 0.13-micron process technology. It is expected to roll out 90-nm chips in late 2003 and 65-nm designs in 2005, according to Intel's roadmap.

By the end of this decade, the company is also expected to develop and ship processors that run at speeds from 10-to-20-GHz.

--By Mark LaPedus, source: Silicon Strategies

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Vampyromaniac

Well if Moore's Law is still based on 18 months, they should have 12GHz in 3 years, and in 6 years ... 48 GHz.
Minus some % for cache and whatnot

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