Quote Originally Posted by Sn0wm@n View Post
on the mcm part they are still bound by tdp ... now have 2 of those glued together and you need to lower your clocks considerably ... so you still stay in the desired tdp so i dont think you will see clocks higher then 2.3 for the 16 cores version ...

maybe 2.5 for the 12 cores mcm part on 32nm ... and higher the less cores they have
You already have 2.3 ghz for 12 full cores at 45nm. With smaller cores with BD and smaller process node, i can definitely say that we will see higher frequency than 2.3 for 16 and 12 core BD parts.