At Computex earlier this week,
Intel demoed a 28-core processor running at 5GHz to a crowd of hundreds of journalists and thousands of enthusiasts.
Intel’s Gregory Bryant focused the presentation on talking about the performance benefits gained by having the processor run at 5GHz and not having to sacrifice multi-threaded performance for it, resulting in a processor that could deliver the best of both worlds, ending with this:
“So, you guys want to see us productize that thing? Tell you what, we'll bring that product to market in Q4 this year, and you'll be able to get it.”
Intel’s presentation certainly implied that this was a brand-new 28-core processor that ran at 5GHz, and that the company was going to bring that exact product to the market later this year. Turns out, that’s not the case.