Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
I am not so sure, we don't know what Intel will do in the face of the X3 .... X3 will compete in price/performance against anyting within that price/performance range.... be it a dual core or a quad core.


In single threaded code, it will lose to wolfdale, in multithreaded code it probably would beat wolfdale (dual core). I am not so certain Intel would simply not populate the price points of the X3 with Quads that perform equal or slightly better in single threaded and whollop it in multithreaded.

Again, at a die size of 214 mm^2 compared to 283 mm^2, Intel has much more pricing power than AMD does.
And how do you think 107mm^2 would fare, then. Two 3.16 GHz cores vs three 2.3 GHz ones. 6.32 Intel GHz vs 6.9 AMD ones (I know it's not such an easy calculation, but it's not that far off, either).

Just think how much it would hurt AMD's pride.

And just don't get started on overclocking.