Quote Originally Posted by xdan View Post
Thuban 6cores has 346mm^ and a TDP of 125W but on 45nm.
On 32nm should have 240-260mm^, see Lynnfield 296mm^(45nm) -> and SB 216mm^ with IGP(32nm).
So it's quite posible that a Thuban with 8 cores and let sau 8MB L3 cache + 8MB L2 cache on 32nm to have 330-346mm^.
And the TDP why should be biger if the die size is the same, and may be the number of the tranzistors would be the same.
With their current 32nm they wouldn't be able to run 6 llano cores at 3GHz and stay under the 100W while having a decent yield.... Not sure how BD does, but the process issue also affect BD (less than llano). The fact that BD is competitive with intel fastest at the moment is alot more than what they had or what an hypotetical 8core llano would be able to do with the state of their process...