Intel to show off Sandy Bridge at IDF next week, AMD counters with Zacate demo nearby

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The major problems for AMD's architecture since K8 (against Core Arch. and later) are the low integer performance and worse branch prediction.

For what it's worth, JF said that the third integer unit was put into k10 purely for symmetrical purposes, and wasn't really being used. So in theory, due to the greatly improved branch prediction, bd should be within 5-10% of SB