Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

[JumpingJack]

Exactly... and there are numerous reports that when Intel caught wind of AMD doing a native quad on 65nm, they simply admitted they couldn't do it. An interesting statement given the struggles that AMD has had but at the same time a bit of endorsement to AMD's engineering to have been able to pull it off.

At any rate, I think both AMD and Intel will demonstrate that 45nm is "the" process at which a native quad becomes really viable.

It wasn't when they caught wind of it, it was several months after AMD unveiled the barcelona design. And Intel's statement was more along the lines that it would be foolish to attempt it rather than they couldn't do it.

Considering the trouble AMD had getting this product to market, Intel was more or less correct it would appear. The whole advantage of Intel's MCM approach is simplicity, yield (costs), and time to market -- all of which has proven to be quite effective so far.

"At 65nm the die would be too big to hold four [Intel] cores and it would be so expensive it would not make sense," said Bryant. "Our 45nm process technology will allow us to do a monolithic quad-core design," she added.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...leID=201804316