Quote Originally Posted by onewingedangel View Post
C2D was able to up the IPC whilst raising the clockspeeds (compared to yonah and previous pentium M's). AMD's problem with k8 was that the design couldn't scale the clockspeeds in the same way that intel could scale theirs (be it SOI or a design issue). k10 goes after a solution by improving IPC again, but looks to do so at the cost of clockspeed compared to k8, let alone c2d. Even if k10 is able to compete with intel in the short term if they run into problems scaling the clocks again it will hurt them long term, the design needs to scale in performance - and raising the clockspeeds is the easiest way to achieve this, extracting ever more IPC gets increasingly costly in regards to die space/idle power consumption.

As I said IPC is only half the story.
I see yes, but compared to netburst, intel had to deliver some mhz as well

But youre logic fitts yes ..

Let's pray the 3.0ghz part is true , and that it's a low end model