Replies to post #44150 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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"...talking as if they just slapped it together"

From the EETimes article:
According to some reports, Intel has been so rushed to make the multicore shift that one of its first dual-core server chips will not even sport arbitration logic. Instead it simply slaps two cores on one die, asking the existing bus-contention protocol to sort out the doubled workload.

That sure confirms what I was thinking.