Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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"My point is that suppose at 65nm Precott blossoms to 5+ ghz at 83 watts"

Could be. But Prescott would be facing a K8 that would be around 120mm^2 dual core running at close to 4Ghz in about the same time frame. And at about the same power consumption. If AMD has their K9 with superior characteristics and a design point of 45nm, then Intel would be in a bind. If AMD blows K9, they still could do a quad core K8 at about the same size as current K8s. If they can come up with a smaller cell size for their cache, like IBM has currently, so much the better. And that doesn't even begin to consider the effects of a Horus-like chip at the same technologies.

83 watts would be great for Prescott. But it wouldn't be a killer. At this point, Intel needs a killer.