Bulldozer may very well not have CMT, but the gen after or even refreshes, (like K8 to K10) may. One thing that may be safe to assume is Bulldozer having a much higher IPC than anything today. Lots of cores with high IPC per core is just fine and doesn't lend itself to the weaknesses of certain multi-threading implementations. I still can't imagine what "commonly held beliefs" JF is talking about. It better be exciting as !