Quote Originally Posted by Sentential View Post
The fact that nelhalem scales poorly and has significant heat dissapation without bringing anything notable to the table in raw thoroughput is a BAD sign for intel.
Not really. Intel targeted Nehalem for processing lots of threads vs. emphasis on single threaded performance. It still does quite well on single threads, at least as good as current C2D's, its just not a huge jump like some people are expecting for some reason. Intel (and IIRC AMD) has said many times that many-core is the future since the effort needed to get more single threaded performance became burdensome a long time ago and is now becoming impracticle. At some point in time you're going to see chips from Intel/AMD which have down right crappy single thread performance on a per core basis, but will have hundreds if not thousands of cores. Nehalem is just Intel's 2nd step in that direction (IIRC quad/dual cores were their first).