I really like the Pentium 4 as an analogy here.
The NetBurst architecture in the P4 was designed to be able to scale to 10 GHz. It initially shipped in the 1-2 GHz range. The performance was not th...
@nprofile1q... I seem to remember the P4 design was also intended for use with RAMBUS memory which got rejected by the rest of the industry. Intel were reluctant to go DDR I think?