Quote Originally Posted by jeremyshaw View Post
Yay, AMD just launched a 3.6GHz Deneb, the 975BE

One step closer :p No, seriously, the reason why I say so is because of Phenom I--> Phenom II. Sure, some tweaks may of helped, but I'm willing to bet 65nm-->45nm was the bigger difference for why Phenom I CPU failed to clock very high - even with insane voltage bumps, yet Phenom II was able to at least match Conroe/Wolfdare (and their MCM combos) SKUs by sheer clock speed advantage.
not really 45nm got immersion lithography 65nm didn't.

TLB bug was over blown, as was not clocking on HTT sandy bridge can't clock their FSB/QPI or what ever it is now either.