Macro - 6:30 pm on Oct 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

It does seem that Moore's "law" has been suspended.

That doesn't seem to be the general consensus. Besides, I hate to be pedantic, but Moore's law isn't specifically about CPU speeds - maybe my wording misled you.

There's a reason why AMD went down a different route to describe their XP CPUs and Intel has done the same with their new 775s.

And two years ago top clock speeds were about 3.0 or even 3.2ghz

Er, not from where I was sitting. Heard of hyperthreading? FX/Extreme Edition (Xeon amounts of cache on P4s)? 64 bit Athlons? They are all MAJOR developments in the processor market. In the last two years.