Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
A year old?

Some geekdom there, but that's based on nothing and hence no different than me saying Intel has 3-core and 5-core processors ready for November. No matter how theoretically possible the conjectures are.

So, AMD has a tri-core part now. Not on the roadmaps nor any guides for so long?

This must be a last minute post-testing decision. Me thinks speed bins with QC are not going to be what we expected till 45nm K10 at least. It's looking like the 2.6GHz QC part is the 2.8GHz of Opteron K8>>> will get a few more out of it after 3-6 months or so, possibly 2 more SKUs, but the basic limit for speed/power.

While TC... should get 200MHz more than that at least and DC, 400MHz more I'm thinking. Ahh, competition.
Sure but what if that 4th core isn't broke but just real slow? What if they binned it and figured out that 3 Cores are good running at 2.2GHz and 4th can only reach 1.8GHz? Failed doesn't mean just broke. So, do they slow all the cores to 1.8 or sell 3 cores as 2.2GHz? This IMHO is what's *also going on as well. The mix and matching of 4 cores is almost endless. For instance a Dual Core@2.8 Costs more than a Quad Core at 2.2GHz. After binning the Quad Core AMD finds that 2 cores will only do 2.2GHz and the other 2 does 2.8 or better, sure AMD will kill the two slower cores and sell it as a 2.8GHz Dual Core. Wouldn't you?

I think folks want to be able to overclock each core independently because they know one or two of those cores might just be screamers. I agree with them.