Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post
The MCM approach is only for yields / costs. And that would not take 2 years, and who's to say they aren't already at work on it?

Just bumping the number of cores would be the more expensive, less design-work way to do it. Surely you don't think *that* would take them all that long, given the plethora of SB variants already coming?
Right now if you look at the 2P and 4P intel products (not counting itanium) you have 2 2P architectures (5600 and 6500) and you have 1 4P (7500) with a rumored second one.

Now, throw an MCM in the mix, and even if Intel wants to build it, it will create a mess of their roadmap and the OEMs probably wouldn't want to use it.

Just because they can build it doesn't mean that everyone will buy it.

Too many platforms, too many sockets, too litttle differentiation. They're smarter than to try that.