Thuban & Zosma info/code name from anandtech "Juicy"

[Florinmocanu]

Thuban is too late... unless given one I don't see myself testing/benching it. If Thuban had been available say 4-5 months ago it would have turned some heads. But by May-June we'll all be in Intel lala land with Westmere. We needed the dozer yesterday. Even if they manage to release a 3GHz Thuban in the 125w power envelope the Core i7 920 and Core i7 860 will eat it alive in performance and quite possibly power consumption. There is no way they can let a 6 core die go for less than $200 so they can't compete on price and I doubt they can get clockspeeds up to 3.4GHz to compete on performance. It is bleak till 2011.. Diablo 3 will be out before Bulldozer

edit: I don't suppose there is a chance at a 12 threaded Thuban MCM at 3 jiggahurts at 140w? Using low leakage binned Thubans? I guess they'd have to beat on that 45nm SOI like it owes them money in order to keep the TDP in an acceptable realm.

Dude, HT on 920/860 is around 15-20% extra performance in multithreaded apps.

a 6 core Thuban at 3ghz will beat the 920/860 (they revolve around 16-17k in cinebench 10)

I suspect around 20k in Cinebench 10, which is around what a I7 975 gets out.

a 6 core thuban at 3ghz will be a serious competitor in multithreaded apps.

Only the westmere cpus will be able to beat it, but at a much higher price tag.