Bill Pohlman, founder of Intel-backed startup Primarion, reports on the progress toward 10 GHz microprocessors within the next four years. A 27-slide presentation (converted here to PDF, sans multimedia) given as the keynote speech to the Microprocessor Forum on October 16.

Outline:
* The 10 GHz Processor
* Power for 10 GHz Processors
* I/O for 10 GHz Processors
* The Encapsulated Processor

Challenges for 10 GHz Processors (from Microprocessor Forum) [PDF]