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Well now that is really Apples to Oranges. If you compare SV Banias to LV Dothan do the same on the AMD side and compare Newcastle to Turion.

Wrt Prescott design, frankly, what you are suggesting is the chaps at Intel designed something they knew it will suck power like hell and won't scale nevertheless in the first place, increasing pipeline-lengths which is helpful to scale frequency, but useful only if it scales indeed? Interestingly, I have more confidence in the sanity of Intels minds than you seem to have.

All Intel had to do was make the op-codes compatible with AMD64 by request of Microsoft (which needs no more than a micro-code change).

Umm. Actually two AMD64-instructions are only supported since days or weeks by EMT64, as you might know. Maybe you could have done it much better than Intel could, though.

K.