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To: BUGGI-WO who wrote (238404)	8/8/2007 4:46:56 PM
From: NicoV	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

>AMD is now at 3,2G K8 DC, all datapoints from K10 show much much lower clock levels. Could they reach K8 levels, sure, is that likely, no. There are no official datapoints right now. Actually, there is 1 official datapoint, the 3Ghz demo from AMD that lot of people here have trouble to believe it was real. The other datapoints are the low initial speeds (1.9 and 2 Ghz), but this IMO more related to the fact that AMD desperately needs to release at least something. AMD needs a new stepping to get K10 where they want it, but they just don't want to wait to release K10 with the new stepping, since the old stepping is good enough for 93% of the market they serve. You are assuming that there is something fundamentally wrong with K10, so that it is unlikely that it will reach K8 clock speeds. I haven't seen any evidence of this, the 3 GHz demo makes me believe the rather the opposite is true. The new stepping will the one which will provide the X2's. If a 3Ghz X4 is possible, why wouldn't a 1 or 2 bins higher X2 be possible?