Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Keeping this progress with CTI,AMD can and probably will bring us to B3 chip@2.8Ghz by Q3(before Shanghai).
Phenom 9950 comes Q3 @ 140W TDP and unless something changes, that is the last of Agena 65nm.

Anandtech in their B3 review said AMD was prioritizing 45nm over continuing 65nm development, and I'm sure that is what they will do. Some B3's could probably be sold @ 2.8GHz but not many, remember that stability for an oc'd system vs. stability for a CPU sold by AMD is a different story. Just because a 9850 can do 2.8GHz @ stock volts doesn't mean that AMD can take that CPU and certify it to work under load 24/7 without error.

But B3 is looking pretty good, if 45nm is an improvement in frequency and not just power/thermals then we will see some good results come Q4.