AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

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please no more circular HT/SMT arguments.

And above all that to mention HKMG which supposedly should serve as huge MHz jump and they even manage to squeeze 4x3.4MHz inside 90W TDP on active 45nm process

nope. HKMG will not improve clockspeed. it is just another necessity for energy scaling for 45nm and beyond.

in fact i would argue that HKMG is what is causing trouble for glofo 32nm SOI. the rumors about that node are not sounding very good.