why would they need a reworked core, let alone a reworked from ground up core like they said, to just add more cores?
they could do that with k10 cores... but i think we reached a point where the overall performance boost of a processor you can reach when improving the performance of each core is so high that it makes sense to rework it instead of adding more and more cores.

i really hope that the focus is on getting more perf at the same transistor budget and not keeping the same performance with a smaller transistor budget...
but looking at how things evolved in the past years, im affraid the latter is the goal, especially since both intel and amd focus heavily on the server market these days and then dump the server chips on the end users as cut down versions...

so my guess is they will go for smaller cores and possibly a new cache system and then go wild core wise and bump up the numbers big time...
for normal end users this means no real benefits though... the only performance boost for desktop would be clockspeed and we are already at 3.4ghz...
sounds like the pc industry has really slowed down and become dull... i miss the excitement of the 90s and 2000s

who knows though, raytracing might really spice things up