AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

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The way I see it is that intel fellow indirectly confirmed what Hans already found out from SB die photo.

It seems likely. (edit: although, hmm, chum makes an interesting point ^^ there ^^ )

Of course, as I argued above, the real comparison should be between an 8-core Sandy Bridge and an 8-core Valencia/Zambezi, if you want to look at relative design strengths.

If you instead insist on comparing to Interlagos, what happens to that analysis if Intel says "we'll play that same trick, too" ? (Have to give credit to JF for framing the debate this way, however. )