i know how to read, im thinking they are spending way to much of the chips space on cache, its nice and all, but more cores will give a much larger benefit in some things than an extra few MB of cache.

i wonder what the difference would be in chip size and performance with 256k L2 for 8 cores, and 2-3MB of L3 vs this with 9MB total and 6 cores

this really sounds like it was built for 32nm, and i hope they can shrink it down quick