28 Cores of Bulls#t – Intel's “5GHz” Parlor Trick

Someone elsewhere mentioned that people worked out the heat per area output of this 5GHz chip; 2W per square millimeter.

This entire chip is a pure joke, there is nothing 5GHz about a silicon die that is about to tear itself apart under the heat stress comparable to early/late orbital reentry or a tenth of a fusion reactor (5 and 10 W per mm^2 respectively).

It feels like someone demonstrated me their race car and then I spot them swapping out the red hot glowing gearing that is dropping liquid metal on the asphalt after one round.

The motherboard they used also looked similarly ridiculous, it had at least two dozen VRM phases to handle the probably around kilowatt of power.

A fire extinguisher will likely have to be sold along with any such CPU if they ever sell this. And I doubt it. They promise 5GHz and they will either massively disapoint everyone or somehow manage to wizard up a 5GHz 28c CPU by Q4 (which is when the IIRC promised to unleash/release this onto consumers).

This guy is one of the few shining beacons in the tech review industry at the moment. I love his approach.

As for Intel: I'm disappointed, but not surprised. I really hope that AMD can continue to regain a healthy market share and company stability so that this kind of behavior is discouraged via Intel's bottom line.