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[imho]

wbmw,

I don't understand what illegitimizes MCM packages in the eyes of the critics. I have highlighted some of the advantages, and by now they should be almost common knowledge. Are people so obsessed with chip integration that putting together dual cores at the package level somehow seems like "cheating"?

Thanks for making this important point. I admit I get my information second source, but as I recall, a number of MCM techniques, perhaps similar to the ones used here, were advanced enough to warrant press coverage and patents around 2001. Listening to the AMD detractors you would think that a blind squirrel could slap two dies together.

Continuing with this train of thought, if it is such a trivial thing, why didn’t AMD take their 4 core die and slap it together to really blow the doors off anything Intel could demonstrate? Responding by saying AMD does not need to, want to, or doesn’t have to, is a lame excuse. After all, it is easy to do. Now, perhaps the AMD design does not lend itself to this. Have they ever produced any MCM devices in their history?

No matter what AMD's excuse may be, I consider having the ability and the option of MCM in a CPU architecture as an asset that Intel can exploit and a missing weapon in AMD's arsenal. Thoughts appreciated.

IMHO