Quote Originally Posted by Epsilon84 View Post
Single threaded performance is already very strong on Penryn, Core 2's biggest weakness is still multithreaded performance, in terms of per core scaling it does worse than K10. So I'm glad Nehalem addressed this weakness, whilst being able to get a substantial boost in single threaded performance as well.

Besides, as Shintai said, now that the MHz race is over, it's time for the core race. Multithreading is the future, and Nehalem with an IMC and HT should prove a monster in this regard.
Please explain Core 2's biggest weakness again?