Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
Even tho thats highly likely. Remember Intel can use its own foundries and design the chip and process to the max performance. Plus a lead. Imagine Larabee on a High-K metal 45nm process today. Inferiour product on a better process can change the tide.
Not quite true... The Pentium D on 65nm didn't surpass a 90nm A64 x2. The Prescott didn't surpass the 130nm A64's either. Nor did the R600 surpass the G80. We also saw what happened with the RV670 vs G92.

Process can help you do more in a single chip, or lower power consumption, but it doesn't make for a better chip in all cases. Besides, by the time we see larabee, we'll see both ATi and NVidia on smaller processes than they presently are, and intel have stated larabee will be 10x the performance of their best IGP, which would only align it with the G80...