Intel CPU Speed Barrier - Can Intel Hop?

Do you think that the tech world is completely dumb & stupid? Do you think that if you keep quiet, long enough, we will develop amnesia en-mass and forget about the fact that in the past 5 years, you have been unable to surpass the Speed Wall of 3.5GHz for your consumer CPU lines? I assure you that not all of us are dumb and definitely we are far from being stupid! You have effectively ran away from the CPU Speed Wall that you have hit, and joined the wonderful world of Multi-Core! You can’t break down the speed barrier, so you throw more cores at it. When will you fix this problem? Are you still working on it or have you thrown your corporate arms around and given up on the whole thing? Sooner or later you will need to break down this barrier, and you can be sure that most of your customers that you kindly treat as a bunch of dummies, will need it too. What if AMD manages to solve this problem before you? Do you know what kind of corporate blow will that be? In the mean time, you can at least open up and let the tech community know what trials and tribulations your people are going through while trying hop over this barrier. Let us know how you planning to solve this problem and what your projections are, regarding the timetable of these endeavours. Cores are good, but be sure they will be even better at a much higher clock speed and that is what everyone wants.