>>>Past: 1.6 Mhz - 8 Mhz
>>Now: 600 Mhz - 800 Mhz
>>Near Future: 1 - 1.5 Ghz
>>10 Years: ???
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>That Near Future should be here just about now.:-) I've seen ads for 1 ghz processors.
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>Yes, maybe it should have read, "Very Near Future"
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>AMD has an Athlon 1Ghz, and i've heard rumors about an Intel 1.5Ghz.
>(yeah, it's called a toaster oven- Ironically, the chips keep getting smaller and smaller, while the heat sinks get larger and larger. Eventually the CPU will become a black hole wrapped in superconducting ceramics.)

There was a press release that I read that said that 1 ghz Intel chips would be available at the end of last March. Haven't seen an ad for one though.