BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Research reveals mislaid microprocessor megahertz

It's no wonder we need to upgrade our computers on a regular basis. Not only are chip companies regularly releasing ever-faster microprocessors, but new research has revealed that modern CPUs actually lose megahertz over time.

This startling conclusion follows a five-year research programme carried out by the Illyria University's Information Technology department.

"Five years ago, we activated a dozen new, freshly-purchased systems," said Computer Science Professor Asteio Artikolos. "Since then we have measured, on average, a 10-15 per cent reduction in the machines' clock speeds over that time. It's as if each machine's stock of megahertz were somehow leaking away."

The sad thing is that we all actually see this due to fact that all our application are mainly single threaded and only higher clock speed could give us illusion of higher productivity. (TM bad hardware week). But, I admit April fools idea is an original one. And the only one able to solve clock rise stall. :)

The top 100 April Fool's day hoaxes.
Here is my proposal for top 100 : Intel doesn't cheat and copy the others anymore !