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Tenchu, re: Dan, Fin-Fets and Asymmetric cores.

Dan is right on both accounts.

You are wrong laughing about asymmetric cores. It has been discussed by AMD as one of the bigger opportunities on four seperate occasions I know of. Also from the article you mentioned: "Fred went on to say that for future microprocessors, he's not sure if the K8 core necessarily disappears and that in the long run, it could be that future microprocessors feature one or more K8 cores complemented by other cores." Fred is not cool to the idea; he is serious about it as a longer term opportunity.

AMD has more than 18 months ago I believe shown working fin-fet-like transistors (and fin-fets are only one of techniques AMD might use at 45nm). Intel though has something special up its sleave for 45nm, namely high-k. Hence 45nm is shaping up to be an important node in the industry because of these different tracks.

Regards,

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