Quote Originally Posted by LordEC911 View Post
Yep, throwing huge amount of cache, i.e. transistors, to help with their poor branching/logic is certainly an awesome design.
SOI & large cache are two different things, though there might be a loose correlation. (CPU/architecture is not my best strength)
FYI, branch prediction is better in C2D than K8 (unknown about K10 right now).

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...o-preview.html