Look to me a significant amount of engineering went into making sure the chip can withstand the amount of power it is drawing. Basically a desperate move by Intel to keep their outdated design from being completely smoked by AMD.
Sick overclock. It's cool to see Intel chips reach such new heights. It felt like we were stuck for 10 years. Hopefully as they get better at manufacturing and shrinking the 5GHz bar can be reliably passed.
Weirdest headline ever. Why tell us what it almost achieved? It broke a world record, right? Well, what is that record then? Why tf is a number it didn’t hit being mentioned at all?
One would think from far away perspective or first principles, that we have passed the point of liquid cooling being way more optimal in the datacenter a long time ago already (if you're actually doing computing and not idling).<p>But everything's so slow and path dependent.<p>I wonder how much you could do with a single rack if you got really serious about it. Cooling, power, networking etc.
I’ll always wonder what would have happened if Intel had stuck with Pentium 4 and those incredibly long (31 stages! How we’ve fallen). Sure, they were power hungry, but at ~100W they don’t compare badly to modern chips. And dumping 100 Watts onto a single core is an extremely cool and fun thing to do. I wonder if we could have 10GHz processors for real by now.