Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
I think what the poster was trying to say is AMD has no issues hitting high clocks, it has no issues getting more cores in a chip so what it really needs to focus on is IPC and in a big way.

If they got the IPC up to snuff even 2-3% less than intel........they wouldn't need to keep adding cores, the performance would work across the board including multithreaded, later dates they could add more cores as needed.
I think there's gotta be a balance...it depends on the architecture design.

If we have a core that is 10% slower than Intel's but hits 5.5 Ghz on air then it is easily competitive...not only that but you then see higher Mhz and average user is tricked like in P4/A64 days. I think its more about single thread performance as a whole and not just IPC, even though more IPC looks nice on paper depending on how you look at it.