http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16448

HT assist seems to be something nifty. Plus HT3.0 will suffice for 12 cores and help 24 thread scaling.

For a drop-in upgrade to Socket F it seems wicked nice. It won't win SAP SD benchmarks because it's not quad-channel DDR3 at work yet, but for HPC and Virtualization it should definitely give some sense to a certain CPU called Gainestown.


(And no, Gulftown was not on demo at IDF. It should not catch Q3 or Q4 of 2009, probably Q2 2010 for servers. Magny probably comes 1 quarter later with QC DDR3.)