Quote Originally Posted by Opteron146 View Post
With the same statement you could argue that a Corvette car with an 8 cylinder is just two Toyota Prius with 4 cylinders fused together .. does it make sense ? ;-)
That is the thing, AMD is currently on a multi-core/multi-threaded direction and the logical step is not to pursue single thread performance. Rather to aim for the single thread sweet spot and hit Intel with simply a much more efficient design. Now there may be prefetch and prediction enhancements but besides that; I really don't logically see anything different beyond the sharing in the front end and in the FPU. I admit I'm probably wrong but it is certainly something to ponder.