AMD: 6-core in June; 16-core in 2011

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Soleron said:

nojustno said:
Not so fast, I remember AMD officials saying phenom was 40% faster than Athlon X2 per core, look how that turned out.

I still hope it's true though :)

Well it was about that fast. Just it launched at 2.3GHz when Athlon 64 X2 was at 3.0GHz, and when Intel's stuff was 50% faster than the Athlon 64 X2 per clock per core. Unfortunate timing on AMD's part really - how could they know Intel would come out with something twice as fast as their previous generation with lower power and smaller die size, practically overnight?

 

 

i disagree... merom was exactly what everyone was waiting for and AMD sat on the success of the X2's hoping they wont have to play catch up. If AMD had worked harder n faster on the phenom things might be a lil different today. Anyhow this new 16 core thing looks promsing, what news on the fusion?