Earthquake in PC world: Intel P4 will never reach 4GHz

The information which was so far a rumor is now official.
Intel has decided to cancel top-speed Pentium 4 chip, it will never reach the Mythic 4 GHz frontier. Facing technology and chip design issues, Intel has decided to stop the "GHz King" strategy which has been its way to go for now years.
The chip manufacturer is going to concentrate its strength to its dual-core project and will propose large L2 cache-based single core processor (such as P4) for next year. All chip manufacturers have been facing problem when shifting from 110/130nm to 90nm engraving process, and they had to revised their plans which were originally to increase CPU frequency thanks to thinner engraving and lower voltage. However, electron leakiness has proven to be the major issue, and the current strategy is to increase overall number of transistors/core thank to 90nm process.
Interestingly, IBM is using dual-core technology for years in its PowerX processors. The current Apple G5, aka PPC970, is a IBM dualcore-Power4 derivate.
In the future, with 65nm engraving process, we will have CPU with even more transistors and L2cache.
This information is nicely being announced the day after the European Commission has issues remarks and legal action against 5 European countries (among them France....) for having promoted Intel-based computer. This was of course indirect, but when French administration was sending request for computer offers, with minimal CPU frequency fitting Intel scale, that was putting AMD and Apple automatically out of the competition since they both have processor running at lower clock speed...even though performance were similar if not higher... from now on, one will have to speak using a computing capacity (calculating power) and no more CPU frequency business...