gosh, Intel's 14nm lithography must be truly wonderful.

it looks like just today somebody finally managed to get one of the cores on their $600 brand-new 14nm Intel Core-i7 6700K Skylake CPU to run at a whopping 7GHz.

this is considered a world-record speed for Intel chips.

but, too bad for Intel's marketing department:

the crown actually still belongs to AMD.

(almost 9GHz, on all eight cores of a 32nm $270 FX-8370, two years ago)

also, a terrible shame that both of them needed all that liquid nitrogen to accomplish the task.

bragging rights aside, having to run your computer at 200degC below zero isn't very practical.

GLAL,

R.

PS: there were no uptime measurements shown, so we don't know if the machines burst into flames within 5 minutes of being turned on (i.e., long enough to boot Windows off SSD and take the benchmark screenshot).