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intel  The Future of CPU Sales  Up until now, differentiating
between CPU products has been all about getting more cores and
higher speeds. If you have the money, for instance, you want to
buy a CPU with as many cores as possible running at the highest
speed possible in order to get the fastest performance possible.
An article by J. Scott Gardener opened my eyes on how much more
complicated a smart CPU buying decision will be in the future.
In the past, CPUs were clocked as high as they could go (in
terms of GHz ) and priced accordingly. These days, MANY (I will
exaggerate a bit and say MOST) CPUs are actually capable of
reaching incredible speeds far exceeding their marketed
performance grades. For instance, it is possible to take a
1.8GHz Dual-Core Intel processor and overclock it to just about
4.0 GHz. In a simple sense, smart overclocking consumer x just
doubled his performance for free. So why doesn't Intel, AMD, or
VIA just sell consumer x the