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Originally Posted by Cethin

16 cores? Meh, I'm talking about their quad core architecture. Intel quad core setup is pretty much two dual cores slapped together, versus AMDs cores being connected by a 2MB L3 Cache. It's difficult to say whether or not AMD will pull through with it, but I really hope it does.

Thats where penryn comes in which isn't just 2 dual cores on the one package. The performance gains are only expected to be around 5% over what the current quads are.

As for barcelona, thats only mean to be scaling to around 2ghz currently. Amd need to pull a rabbit out of the hat.