Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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wbmw - edit: link updated, tx j3pflynn

Yup. This refers to the Woodcrest-Lithography (which will appear as High-End-Conroe as well), where the author hints Intel goes back to exclusive Caches. On this basis the expectations for performance sound reasonable, maybe whith a questionmark wrt to memory-starving of a 3Ghz part to be resolved by means of future platforms.

However, for any conclusions on competitive impacts it would need a timeline - and a priceline as well. From the above lithography considerations i would not expect such an animal sooner than K10.
And costly. By this time I am pretty confident K9 will be already beyond the Spec benches the author forecasts for Woodcrest/Conroe 3GHz, as well. K9 is just three speedsteps away from 3GHz.

http://www.computerhq.com/AMD_Socket_940_Opteron_Dual_Core/OSA280FAA6CB/products/partinfo-id-561938.....
link from neubiene/w:o

K.