![]() With the race to 1GHz taking so long and the race from 1GHz to 2GHz taking less than 12 months afterwards, Intel have taken just over 12 months since to officially add yet another 1000MHz (1 billion clock cycles per second) to things. Back in August 2001 on the 27th, Intel released the 2GHz Pentium 4, a milestone in the computing industry and the first x86 processor to reach that magical figure. To start with it's the first consumer x86 processor to break the 3GHz barrier. ![]() ![]() For a number of reasons, this new processor has held a lot of column inches in the online technology press. It's not been that long since we saw the release of the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 and since then the focus has been on today, the date of release of the 3.06GHz.
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