Ooooohhh... sounds nice! The Oct-core will only be for Xeons, IIRC. Not even Crysis would benefit from an Oct-core any more than it would with a highly clocked quad-core.

Right now, I wish there were tri-cores out there at a sweet price point of say $200 or $250---on a 45nm process, Intel could sell them in droves for a profit. I think I can see Intel doing it for their Celeron series at least, after AMD releases tri-core K10's.

Man, 32nm is hard to imagine. Honestly, I thought we would never ever come to see chips being made on 32nm process, due to some kind of a "hitting-the-wall" limitation of silicon. Remember the severe problems associated with 65nm?

I think AMD will make a comeback someday real soon. They did an early release of R680's on 55nm. Now, they are getting ready for 45nm with both K10's and R700's. But for Intel to do 32nm is almost un-thinkable for me! 22nm anyone? When will we hit the wall on silicon? Even improved 193nm lithography can only do so much.