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Originally Posted by phaedo5  This may sound like a stupid question, but what happened to processor speeds?
Why aren't we seeing more of a push towards 3GHz or 4GHz processors with new computers. Everything seems mostly between 2 and 3. Apple Mac Pros top out at 3 GHz. Dell is similar. Are these new Core Duos so much better that 2.33 GHz is ten times better than the same speed two years ago?
I know it's a vague question, and no one may want to deal with answering it. But everything I find online is an article from 2000 or something. I can't get a up to date explanation.
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processors are improving in the amount of instructions they can process per clock cycle.