Imo Phenom II 940 will cost $400 at release as it's direct competitor is the non-XE 9650 and not i920. Intel in it's effort to not cannibalize 775 sales has done AMD a great favor here and priced the entire i7 platform in the extreme high-end category, and i fully expect AMD to take advantage of that. I also think that AMD will release at least a 3.4GHz cpu by the end of the year.
Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
You mean the EEtimes article where it states that amds (ibms) 45nm has a 62% lower pmos driver current(660 vs 1070 µA/µm) then intels 45nm? (higher is better btw.)

Amd/ibm has a long way to catch intel on transistor performance. But transistor performance alone means nothing when the design cant keep up.
i guess you missed this part
The transistor drive current for AMD's 45-nm devices is much lower than that of the Intel HKMG transistors. But power consumption is quickly becoming a high priority for server chips. AMD's transistors exhibit very low channel leakage. Our transistor benchmarks indicates that leakage current is less than one-third of the value measured on AMD's 65-nm process. It's also significantly lower than the Intel 45-nm HKMG process. In fact the Ion/Ioff ratio for AMD's PFET is nearly 10 times better than that for the Intel PFET.
source: eetimes
Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
ack, i would like to see this by another source.
Well i really don't think AMD would release slides mentioning overclocking unless they had something to show. In fact the early slides on ACC were quite accurate in what they promised which was 200mhz more on average.