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wbmw, got your point. Sorry, I had to read more carefully. Still, even taking this into account pure clock difference does not mean that AMD did not decreased the gap in manufacturing. The fact that Barton is clocked only around 2.1 Ghz is most likely attributed to the estimate that AMD sacrificed some binsplits in order to get better yields. And it seems to work as Barton 3000 is widely available and it seems that >90% of all processors AMD is making now can clock at 2.1 Ghz without rasing the voltage. It seems Barton 3000 is not cherry-picked, they all are made 3000, but some of them sold as 2500. Same true for XP, almost all modern Athlons work at 2800 without raising voltage above 1.65V. It seems the only reason XP 3200 is not introduced is that market doesn't need it, because any 3000 can clock higher. AMD seems to prefer introducing "400" Mhz bus instead of clocking Barton at 2.2.

If you take overclocker sites, you'll see a great progress in the last few months. T-bred A was limited to 2 Ghz or so, T-bred B now can reach 2.5 Ghz and Barton 2.8 Ghz. Well, you know all that yourself.