Quote Originally Posted by Particle View Post
I don't think that's accurate. Since CMT isn't something they're likely to just tack on at the end and AMD is likely to be experimenting with pieces on silicon at this point, I think it's rather more likely that it isn't just some neat concept paper. At the very least, its physical implementation has probably been designed.
i would not make any claims about performance based only on patents even though i am still excited about bulldozer. sure they probably changed the architecture (more specifically out of order engine) for CMT but only AMD knows how effective it is. its a little annoying to see the blogs and threads on bulldozer discredit intel's architectures. they either do it wrong or amd does it better.

Quote Originally Posted by haylui View Post
AMD didn't choose multi-threading like Intel did for their Pentium 4 in the Athlon 64 and their realized that it is a mistake. So they won't do this again!!!
prescott needed SMT badly. now with more multithreaded apps and >4 cores it provides a benefit to all cpu's.