Bulldozers first screens

[chew*]

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.

The problem is currently what we have is a cpu that clocks less for normal temps.........and when it is cranked even 700 mhz higher cold than competitior. It's still losing.

Llano imo is a smart move for AMD, most users don't need all that cpu power, and don't want to buy a high priced vga.

Enter builds that can be done with vga excluded, and built into cpu, something AMD can beat intel at in laptop or low end desktop.

Bulldozer I can't comment on, and I doubt we will see to much even at our around the 7th pertaining to it.

I still think they need to fill that niche with a high IPC moderate cored cpu however.