To me that means less performance than what we originaly led to believe.
AMD didnt anybody LED to believe in any performance numbers as it didnt state any, nor even implied them.
All AMD officialy said is "AM3+ is a platform for our new bulldozer based cpus which will have up to 8 cores".Thats it .
Recently we found out AMD plans to price first 8 core BD at around 300$ mark, so it thinks its gonna compete with 2600k.However its not official and isnt even verified to be true.