Intel for long had 4.0GHz as the goal with its NetBurst architecture, but in the end it turned out to be too much for Intel’s the least to say hot processor architecture. NetBurst stopped at 3.8GHz and Intel instead launched the Core architecture which focus on performance/clock more than high clock frequencies. ironically it seems that this new and more efficient architecture will be first to reach 4.0GHz and beyond. Intel’s Nehalem architecture will be made with a 45nm process and is expected to move past 4.0GHz in 2008. These processors has been code-named Bloomfield and except from the 4.0GHz+ clock frequencies the quad-core processors are expected to use a shared 8MB L2 cache and Intel’s new Socket B platform.
