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To: justaview who wrote (233072)	5/18/2007 12:47:44 PM
From: kpf	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

jav Can anybody explain why the old K8 core was used in a product that is released after Barcelona? Suggest to think along the line Barcelona and Griffin are cores are both derived from K8. Besides, suggest to think in feature sets, not in Silicon. Consequently, expect introductions of features deployed in Barcelona products initially for X2 and Griffin over time. K.

To: justaview who wrote (233072)	5/19/2007 9:16:44 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"Can anybody explain why the old K8 core was used in a product that is released after Barcelona? " Several reasons. The biggest is that the transistor count is a lot lower. The only reason why Barcelona is more power efficient than the K8 is because Barcelona goes to extremes to minimize power usage. But, it had to spend transistors to do that. With Griffin, they likely put more effort into other ways to limit power consumption. Especially at the system level. For almost everyone, performance of a notebook isn't the primary consideration. It is at the tail of the list where cost, size and weight, features and battery life are at the head. As Intel found out with the Core Duo notebooks, price is a huge factor for most of the market.