When do you think they'll ever make Pentium V/5?

[Super Warrior]

Been quite a while since i've built my latest,greatest Pc and paid attention to this sort of thing. I'm suprised a sucessor to the Pentium 4,such as the Pentium 5 has not been released yet.

I just think its odd, like technolgy was "flying" one moment then kinda took a rest for the time being.

I'd imagine by the time a Pentium 5 makes the market it'll be zooming at levels around 6.0-7.0Ghz...

[JohnnyCNote]

I think they plan to use a different naming convention by that time. I seem to recall having read that somewhere....

[thecoalman]

I just think its odd, like technolgy was "flying" one moment then kinda took a rest for the time being.

I remember reading an article about this. They are fastly approaching a wall which at the present time cannot be breached using conventional technology. They can design the chips to make them faster but have no way of making them......

[Faustus]

Well there are alot of tech advances that make the machines better at what they do on the CPU level. Just the mhz doens't have to go up. I mean a 3ghz P1 would actually kinda suck compared to a P4.

When on P5? Who knows maybe next year maybe never. I think there is still more room to give before we hit that "wall". I think heat is actually the greater problems right now.

[thecoalman]

I think heat is actually the greater problems right now.

I think that's one of the bricks.... :P To overcome the heat issue they need to make a smaller chip running at slower speeds. From what I read that is the major hurdle to the next generation of chips. They can't make them that small, at least not at the moment.

[pchan]

Now, Intel and AMD are churning out dual core. the Mhz factor is already in the deminishing return stage. 4+Ghz is probably the max and from there on.. add more cores is the way to go.