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8% better IPC is not something to be sniffed at. And if it consumes less power to boot it's a decent progression.

If you want more performance just wait for the 8 core variant that is sure to...

Seems hard to believe Intel will be disabling half the cores for desktop Ivy Bridge-E - have to believe we will see at least an 8 core i7 XE.

Considering Haswell samples are in the wild, were it true, it would be surprising that this hasn't come out sooner.

So I'm guessing there is someone with an agenda (short selling?) spreading FUD.

How much growth is due to writing off unsold last gen product and dumping them in developing markets?

ARES II costs nearly ?1200. That is more than 1.5x the price of a GTX 690, which will likely be similar to the pricepoint of Titan. If Titan costs less than the GTX 690 the ARES II will be competing...

If you read what I wrote you'd see I expressed quite the opposite. Any like for like comparison x9x0 to x9x0 or x8x0 to x8x0 would be an upgrade on the level equivilent to a new product line, albeit...

AMD should launch a top-to-bottom 8000 series using existing GPU for retail parts as well as OEM parts.

Could use the opportunity to tidy up their naming scheme as well. (see 7870xt)

Dual...

Unless Nvidia release a true 7xx series before the summer (not just GK110 and rebrands) it will be business as usual - and I think Nvidia are as constrained by fabrication yields as AMD.

Both will...

You're right, the GTX 280/285 with a 512bit memory bus was so entry-level.

I'd expect any GK110-based consumer card to be a special-edition gap-filler before a GK114(scaled up GK104)-based GTX 780 is released at a more affordable price point.

I feel it would be akin to...

If GK110 is being released now you have to believe it's just to ensure AMD's 8970 doesn't have things all it's way until the 780 is released.

Wouldn't imagine it having much of a shelf life, and...

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Intel would have paid the whole value of AMD, as it stands, for just the ATi assets a few years ago - and if it weren't for competition law they would probably look to buy AMD largely for those...

Dothan was powerful and efficient at 90nm - so nothing wrong with the process as such, it was more the Prescott design that hampered the P4.

Clovertrail is 32nm - the power saving is likely coming mostly from the extra sleep states and other power optimisations that have been developed to cover the whole product range, not just Atom....

They can't break any existing contracts - and if Samsung can make money from an apple selling an iphone rather than say LG, why not.

Medium term I'm wondering if Apple will make the jump to Intel...

Is the third really a benefit - how much does PSU#1 draw - even at full load it can't be that much?

A sale is a sale at the end of the day, and margins are pretty healthy on even mid-range CPU's, let alone an XE.

As long as they can meet the demand for the higher-margin SKUs they don't lose...

But what would the TDP of a 3.5 GHz 8-core be?

There are certain tasks where you want more cores and can live with lower clockspeeds which the Xeons address. The market for a fully unlocked Xeon...

I believe it's to allow different parts of the chip to dynamically run at different voltages as they are throttled or shut down.

The unlocked multiplier is there to give more flexibility when overclocking, but you're still not guaranteed anything over stock turbo speeds.

The choice of TIM is likely a choice to limit overclocking and enure Sandy Bridge-E keeps a niche on the desktop.

It doesn't affect power consumption, temperatures are within acceptable limits at...

You'd need to compare to 4-way GTX 680 SLI for a fair comparison - if 4-way doesn't improve over 3-way whether due to framebuffer, inefficient scaling or game limitations then it's not a knock on the...

It's priced at a level to be able to sell all available stock at maximum margins - as availability increases to excess prices will decrease.

And it may be a single PCB but it's considerably more...

If you design such a large die could it not be possible to design it with salvage in mind rather than redundancy - ie. instead of having duplicate parts to ensure designs can meet the minimum specs...