Quote Originally Posted by xlink View Post
AMD is making a chip where each core is 2/3rds of what it used to be and shall be marketting by the number of cores...
On the other hand, with Nehalem Intel has made a chip where each core is 4/3rds of what it used to be and is marketing the number of cores (not threads). Which makes me think core count will soon be disregarded just as once GHz was, and we'll see a new metric emerge (threads most probably).