There are constraints on the CPU clock speed related to the baud rate.
But the Godson 3c processor will leapfrog current technology by using a 28-nanometer process, although this will only increase its clock speed by about a factor of two, estimates Halfhill.
While its quad-core "Shanghai" Opterons reached a maximum frequency of 2.3GHz, the six-core part had to give up some clock speed, down to 1.8GHz, to manage the thermal load for six cores.
If you looked only at the clock speeds of microprocessor chips, you might well think so.
Furthermore, the development of synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) means that RAM runs at the same clock speed as the processor's external bus.
The numbered, it reflects various characteristics such as smoothness of engraving, the amount of memory cache, frequency of buses required, or clock speed.