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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by WantonQuantum on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:20PM (#23609315)
Wikipedia says:

As of 2014, the Guinness World Record for the highest CPU clock rate is an overclocked, 8.723 GHz AMD Piledriver-based FX-8370 chip

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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:44AM (#23611746)
Yeah right, completely impractical though.
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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by WantonQuantum on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:25AM (#23612492)
I’m just refuting your bizarre assertion that CPU clock speeds “cannot go above 5Ghz”
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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:50AM (#23613890)
It is not bizarre at all. I find bizarre, OTOH when people fail to understand the context of the phrase. It is not normal to overspecify a statement, when it is clear what is the obvious meaning: a normal modern consumer-grade CPU in a typical usage environment cannot work at frequencies above 5Ghz. And that is true.
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