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• STI accelerates Cell CPU to 6 GHz, Intel bumps 80-core chip to 4 GHz
  Thursday 4 January 2007 – 09:53
  Integrated circuit designers will come together next month in San Francisco to get updates on hardware developments at the annual IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Among the more visible presentations will be a next-generation Cell processor as well as AMD's quad-core Opteron and Intel's 80-core Teraflop processor.
• UMC develops 192 GHz circuit, sets sight on THz chips
  Tuesday 21 February 2006 – 07:30
  Semiconductor foundry UMC today said that it has developed a 130 nm Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) that runs at an operating frequency of 192 GHz.
• Bill Gates sees processor clock speeds to top out at 10 GHz
  Friday 27 July 2007 – 10:26 in Business
  Redmond (WA) – Less than a year from his previously announced departure from the company he co-founded, the Bill Gates today outlined his vision and opportunities for Microsoft. According to Gates, there are currently six trends, which will be determini
• Motorola's 1 GHz PowerPC Processor
  Tuesday 29 January 2002 – 08:08
  Why Motorola stays in the land of Macs instead of jumping the fence and competing with AMD and Intel in the world of less candy-coated computing is a mystery.
• Via's C7 processor promises 2 GHz for 20 watts
  Friday 27 May 2005 – 06:43
  Via today announced its C7 processor based on the Esther core. The company claims it is the world's smallest, lowest power and most secure native x86 processor.
• P4 to 10 GHz in 3 Year Timeframe
  Tuesday 28 August 2001 – 11:46
  Intel continues to beat the frequency drum.
• 1.13 GHz P3 delayed again
  Tuesday 17 October 2000 – 08:15
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• VapoChill 3 GHz PCs at CeBIT
  Tuesday 12 March 2002 – 07:03
  At CeBIT on Wednesday, ASUS and asetek and will combine to present a 3 GHz demo workstation (using a modified P4B266 mobo).
• Intel's 1.40 GHz Pentium III
  Wednesday 9 January 2002 – 07:22
  Though the Pentium 4 may be the favored son, Intel hasn't completely forgotten about the old P3.
• Intel's 2.2 GHz Pentium 4
  Monday 7 January 2002 – 06:38
  You know the competition between Intel and rival AMD must be heating up when they both release their latest and greatest processor on the same day.
• Intel Xeon Hits 2 GHz
  Wednesday 26 September 2001 – 06:42
  OK, this probably isn't much of a story, seeing as how the P4 hit the 2 GHz mark back in August and the Xeon is based on the same core.
• Crucial takes Ballistix memory to 1 GHz
  Wednesday 3 August 2005 – 01:09
  Crucial today introduced a 1 GHz version of its performance memory series Ballistix.
• Corsair ships 1 GHz DDR2 memory
  Friday 27 May 2005 – 04:51
  Corsair claims it is first memory manufacturer to ship DDR2 memory clocked at 1 GHz.
• Transmeta demos 2 GHz Efficeon processor
  Wednesday 6 October 2004 – 08:36
  Transmeta announced that it will debut a new generation of its TM8800 Efficeon processor later this year. The processor will be clocked at 2 GHz and support Intel's SSE3 instruction set.
• 2 GHz Pentium 4 Rears its Head
  Monday 20 August 2001 – 11:31
  According to Newsfactor, Intel will be showing off its 2 GHz Pentium 4 processor next week at its annual developers' conference, which opens its doors August 27th.