In the mean time, while flu complains that Intel is a dead fish, I went and bought one of their newest products. Namely, i5-2500k. This thing is a monster. Stable and under 60 C at full load at 4.6 GHz. From what I gather from overclocking forums and my own experience, virtually every single 2500k and 2600k can break the 5 GHz barrier, provided you have the cooling and you’re willing to risk a potential reduction in life (no one knows that last part for sure, so I’ll err on the side of caution and stay at 4.6.)

AMD, your move.

[quote]”I doubt ARM will make inroads into the PC markets”…Hello, did you answer the first question? What are you going to do about the ARM-dominated mobile space? God I hope I’m wrong.
Someone please bring back Andy Grove from retirement…[/quote]

Honestly, who cares about the embedded market? What is the profit margin on a typical mobile ARM CPU? 50 cents? A dollar? ARM market is heavily commoditized, it is a red-ocean market. The real money is in desktop CPUs, server CPUs, desktop and general-purpose GPUs. There we have a total of three major players, down from four a few years ago. These players make all the right moves to make it appear that the embedded market matters, but it really doesn’t.