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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by nolok on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:25AM (#20232144)
That's when Intel "let's go faster" made them meet the 4Ghz barrier head on for the first time. More than a decade later and we're still pretty much there.

One has to wonder how things would have gone if they didn't have the Core-M architecture on the side back then.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by cptskippy on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:07AM (#20232474)
Intel knew that the Netburst Architecture was power hungry so it had established an Israeli team to develop a mobile architecture in tandem. I believe they started with Tualatin or another late PIII design and optimized the hell out of the microcode. I believe that became Banias and they continued to bring in aspects of Netburst to produce the precursors to the Core line.
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