AMD prepares three-core processors

[OneEng]

coldpower27,

Intel has Quad Core at $266 it will be interesting if AMD makes any Tri-Core above that price.

It took AMD 2.5 Yrs give or take to scale K8 that far, so by the time they reach 4.0GHZ assuming that is even possible for AMD's particular architecture it may not even matter as it will be going against Intel's 32nm processors.

IBM has Power6 processors at 4.7GHZ in Dual Core form last time I checked and as we know architecture is the stronger factor in determining how high a clockspeed it can attain rather then the process.

Very good point. While AMD did in fact scale this far, it took forever ..... something they do not have today

And yes, I am sure that Power6's architecture is a major factor in its scaling. I was aiming to head off the argument that AMD's SOI process is the fiend holding back their clock scaling.

I agree with you, it is the mask and the architecture, not the process.