AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer

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It's not fair to compare the 2 products Intel and AMD will be offering to the desktop enthusiast market segment because the Intel part supports twice the number of threads?

I'm sure the Intel parts *will* cost more, but they'll perform better, and in that, help justify the price differential.

We'll see about that when the benchmarks are out. In particular, AMD, although failures in terms of absolute performance, positioned their products nicely to offer competitive, alternative solutions to intel.