wbmw,
Now we agree on something. I posted along similar lines some months ago on another board. Intel should use Banias core as a base for all processors, allow more power for desktop (to get higher performance), add memory controller and x86-64, and for server, multiple core Banias with 64 bit extentions would rule. It would live easily within reasonable power limits even 2-4 way, and a 4 core Banias could still be approx. same die size as single Madison, and easily > 2x performance of Itanium (on multithreaded apps).
But before we slam Prescott too much (well, we should wait for real app performance, rather than synthetic benchmarks), it is entirely possible that Prescott will live up to the original premise of Netburst - clock speed scalability.
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