Quote Originally Posted by perkam View Post
In 2 years time, or by September 2011, you'll have 22nm shrink of Sandybridge by the name of IvyBridge from Intel with 8-cores 16-threads on desktops, and likely 22nm 12 and 16-core (24 and 32-thread) chips on the server side.

From AMD, you'll have Octo-core Bulldozer chips on the desktop and 32nm 16-core Bulldozer cpus on the server side with CMT (Clustered Multi-threading) and an unknown amount of threads.

I.E. Whatever will be out 2 years from now will make Magny-Cours look like utter trash.

Perkam
the debate of many slow cores v a few fast cores begins!