AMD Zen 6 could hit 7 GHz and 24 cores in desktop CPUs | TechSpot Its just a rumor at this point, but AMD always leaks rumors nonstop. Part of their strength is they have fewer secrets, and this is far from being a stretch of the imagination. The really curious thing, is that new coolers are coming on the market, first for the servers, which should make it possible to double the speed of these chips! Its really hard to imagine a 15ghz chip, but the more efficient they make them for laptops, the faster they can be overclocked. Manufacturers constantly try to throttle their chips with less memory or whatever, so people will have to buy their more expensive chips, but it really is coming down to last year's models being good enough for almost anyone. Past the point of about 260 teraflops, you won't be able to tell the difference.
Its what I call, "The Timex Watch Effect!" A modern $20 watch has more compute capacity than all of the Apollo missions combined. All the physics indicate that you can make computers out of anything, and some are racing to create the first self-assembling computers. Next, comes the AR glasses, which are coming down in price and weight, and a lot of consumer products are waiting on supercapacitor technology to replace batteries. In each case, they're attempting to dole out the bandwidth capacity, which emerging quantum technology would make impossible. Nobody owns quantum mechanics, and everyone is about to get a rude awakening! Think the HUP combined with GIGO, they're about to discover their own Three Stooges Slapstick is self-organizing.
I dunno if Ill ever need close to 7!!! (I dont do much on my computer) Surf,play flash,java and shockwave games mostly
For all practical purposes, people need about 200 frames per second on their display, and 4k resolution. Input lag is another issue, but the entire industry waited for 15 years for processors to get fast enough to handle that kind of load, at around 5ghz. Current video games seldom require more than 6 cores, but you want them to be fast. Nvidia has a Project Denver they've been working on, attempting to produce a single chip with 96 RISC-V processors, just for gaming. Ideally, you might want to combine that with 4 gpus and 350gbs of memory for running a Star Trek Holodeck. By today's standards, you might pay $350,000.oo for a chip like that, but it should come down in price to the point where you can buy one on a twenty dollar watch, and they always come standard in every TV you buy. Within 3 years, gamers will no longer have issues with frame rates and resolutions, and the prices should eventually come down the more competition there is. At the same time, the entire internet is about to change radically, thanks to Russia and China hacking everyone. Forget about quantum encryption, the AI are about to redefine the internet. Of course, Microsoft wants to sell everyone their own personal AI, as if they can own the human soul, and is slowly discovering the truth, that their own AI are about to eat them for lunch.
