Quote Originally Posted by Nedjo View Post
50% better than 45nm! That's awesome considering how good is 45nm tech especially with the latest upgrades that gave us "C3" Phenom II
That's not product improvement, it's some unspecified measure of transistor improvement. Probably related to power/leakage as well, since that would provide the larger number to brag about, and they are finally using metal gates at this node, which helps a lot with leakage.