Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Joe

Yeah, exactly. Even if the Core they are using for EE maybe could scale way beyond EE3200, current platforms (limitations to get enough current into it through the pins they have now) dont allow much more.

If Intel is courageous (or desperate) enough to take the risks of electromigration or other effects becoming critical, an option would be to package the 130nm-EE-core for LGA775 and scale it to 4 Mhz already in Q2. (They shipped products specified at the coffins corner of the envelope before, so I would not be surprised to see that.)

But then, I would expect AMD to be able to counter even a 4GHz EE if necessary. So probably any escalation would lead nowhere.

Until...

Large cache 90nm Xeons could probably be the next opportunity to ride an EE-attack to regain the DT-Perfomance Crown. For the next couple of months, it will sit on Hectors head to capitalize on the halo.

K.