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Re: So Paul in your view 140 watts for a quad-core device is high?
What do you expect a quad-core IPF device to be at?

The Tukwila core is said to exist in the current IPF thermal envelop (130W), plus one additional power envelope (guessing 165W, a la Paxville MP). So I really don't see IPF being lower power than Opteron, but then again they shouldn't have to be. The main war in the IPF space is with Power6/7. And unless IBM really screws these projects up, I'd say those new IPF engineers will have their work cut out for them.