Quote Originally Posted by gallag View Post
What does this say about deneb yields? Did it not take over a year to get enough defective agenas to launch x3.
I was wondering the same...
Either they are committing good quad-cores to sell as tri (stupid idea) or yields are worse than on 65nm (most likely). This or other way consumer wins, because tri-cores will be cheaper and less energy hungry. Perfect for HTPC/gaming machines, not so great for workstation/servers.

On the other thought 1st quarter volume of Agena/Barcelona was definitely MUCH lower than it is on newer 45nm stuff. Looking from this angle is hard to say anything about yield of AMD 45nm process.