I guess it doesn't matter how marketing calls it and you are right chew*. What matters is performance. If it fails to beat X6 thuban in multithreaded workloads then it doesn't warrant an 8C marketing name IMO. They would be better off calling it 4C/8T part since in this case they would get praised for being much faster than X4 in many applications. But this way,equal or barely faster than Thuban with sky high Turbo clocks ... It is not going to bring them much praise in reviews.