AMD: the world's first 12-core processor has begun shipping

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AMD is not targeting a small wprime application with its 6100 series... In the intended workloads these chips will be great and the price will be even better. What's evident is that AMD is executing perfectly since Shanghai and this is an indication of what we will see with BD launch.

Except Nehalem typically gets 50% or more throughput per core so Westmere with a 3:2 clockspeed advantage is going to be capable of matching or exceeding Magny Cours in throughput, except for things like Linpack.

Make that a 60%,or wait 90%... Dream on man.
MC is a DDR3 based platform and there will be more to come in terms of power efficiency and clocks . If AMD is doing this with its current 45nm cores what will happen when they launch 16 core Bulldozers next year,in the same infrastructure ?