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We have to admit that we were pretty impressed with Intel’s 6-core Dunnington launch and Intel’s capability to scale its Core micro-architecture, even if it is somewhat obvious that the technology is nearing its limits. Power consumption levels on the high-end are reaching questionable levels again. It is where Dunnington is most impressive at first sight, but most vulnerable to AMD’s attacks. And besides its high power consumption, AMD claims that the 6-core does not scale very efficiently in terms in performance and that the 45 nm AMD quad-core will be able to surpass Dunnington in speed and power efficiency by the end of this year. AMD is working on a native 6-core processor, code-named Istanbul, which is due for release in H2 2009. Fruehe said that Istanbul will maintain the 55 watt, 75 watt and 105 watt power ratings of the Barcelona/Shanghai quad-core processors.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39387/135/

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