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I was primarily addressing beep. You do seem to agree with me in spirit though, noting the 65nm shrink's less than steller performance jump. The string of these shrink events are the history I base my generalization on. It's more historically accurate than someone expecting a major increase.
My point isn't in regards to BD. I've been referring to beep's quote, "Considering a simple Stars shrink to 32nm should do 4.6-4.8 Ghz I would guess." It's a bad assumption based on history.

Bad assumption based on history?

...they went from ~2.6 Ghz to ~3.4-3.7 from 65nm to 45nm, also added major power efficiency improvements, keep in mind Phenom II is the same core as Phenom it was a shrink with optimizations and extra cache...and look how much faster the same core is CPC.

Not sure why you would focus on a process two generations back instead of focus on the most recent. If we get gains at 32nm like we did at 45nm, then Stars would easily be doing 5 Ghz and have 5-10% better IPC.