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Chipguy:

The only one in la-la land is you. Q4 shows just how far you are in that land. Don't compare future Intel with what AMD has now, compare them at the same time. Socket F will be here probably before Montecito and definitely before NGA. Revision F will be as well along with 90nm SiGe. Given how late Montecito is already, it might even slip further to beyond NGA. And NGA will likely try to compete with 65nm SiGe based AMD Opterons with cHT3.0 which AMD has stated includes 32 socket capability.

As for the benchmark, it probably doesn't use the three things that 8 sockets brings over 4 sockets, 8 IMCs vs 4, 64 DIMMs over 32 or 32 over 16 and more GHz per core. Network bound benchmarks tend to do that. Those that excel with higher memory BW, higher memory capacity, higher MIPs, higher MFLOPs and/or lower interprocess comm, do better with 8 sockets of single core than 4 sockets of dual core. Benchmarks that like low latency also favor the 4 socket over 8 socket systems. SPECrate tends to favor the SC 8 socket systems over the DC 4 socket ones for example.

You just like to dream AMD retreats or even stands still while Intel catches up. Not going to happen!

Pete