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I realize this article is from 2010, but it could have mentioned AMD, which does have a 5 GHz chip available now. It requires liquid cooling however.

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IBM beat that by a hair or two, 5 GHz POWER6 processors came out in in 2007. And the newer, faster POWER7 chips are clocked lower. Clock frequency != performance.

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