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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by mattashii on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:00PM (#23606593)
> Single-thread performance it tied to clock frequency

Within an architecture, yes, but between architectures performance of different usage patterns may vary wildly.

> which cannot go above 5Ghz

this is objectively false. Intel is shipping (limited amounts of) chips that boost over 5GHz, and IBM is shipping its z15 z/architecture CPU which clocks at 5.2 GHz, and shipped its ancestor, the zEC12 CPU clocking in at 5.5Ghz (!), in 2012.

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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:43AM (#23611740)
Fine, not 5 but 6 Ghz, so what? 5 Ghz is a reasonable limit for consumer purposes, beyond which heat dissipation becomes unbearable problem.
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