Official Desktop Penryn Discussion Thread

[Donnie27]

1. 8 cores on one die is suspect. I'm sure it's 4 core max, and 8 core will be MCP.

2. Independent power planes might be incorrect. That's a big 'MIGHT'.

Not too sure what else could be wrong. Why is the date incorrect?

I don't see why you are nitpicking over 'who did what first'. Even if Intel did something first, AMD came out with the first mainstream (mass-market) version and thus popularized the concept.

Wrong is wrong=P Anyway, Nehalem is the So-Called native Quad Core Answer from Intel. Just more Marketing schlock (Native) IMHO! Remember MCM-ed Nehalem will not matter anyway since it will be Point to Point using CSI not a FSB. One Quad Core Penryn will not need an IMC. Current Q6xxx vs. $X$ (erum 4 X 4) pretty much proves that.

Intel had no reason to hide Penryn from any of us, shouldn't AMD have done the same? Penryn has Improvements over Conroe and looks it will be a sweet overclocker.

Edit; Added later, it will do 8 threads because it also includes Hyperthreading 2. 8-core models can process 16 single threads.