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Comment author: timtyler 22 December 2010 02:02:31PM *  3 points [-]

The multicore crisis appears to be continuing:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/a-picture-of-the-multicore-crisis/

For a more recent graph, see:

http://orangecone.com/archives/2010/07/peak_mhz.html

According to The Singularity is Near we should have topped 11Mhz last year.

Clock speed is a pretty critical metric for tech progress. Not so exponential, now!

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 December 2010 06:38:56PM -1 points [-]

That and its linked posts are fantastic and explain quite a lot about the past few years.