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To: pgerassi who wrote (255314)	8/6/2008 5:36:59 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: To answer your PS, no not from AMD, but if you would have googled it ("Fusion 40nm SOI"), dvhardware.net was the first one listed, when I just did that. You actually need to read the article instead of pretending every Google hit is an answer. There is absolutely no mention of TSMC using SOI on 40-nm, just on 32-nm. I think this recent article, although mentioning 45-nm instead of 40-nm, is much more relevent: ...TSMC's Scott said bulk CMOS dominates and that TSMC has fully demonstrated 65nm and 45nm node SOI devices, but no customers want it -- "They built it (SOI) and customers did not come!" A 10%-20% performance benefit with SOI is not enough, and it needs to be >50%... solid-state.com I didn't think anyone would have thought 8 core Larrabee would be all that fast... Low end Larrabee doesn't need to be all that fast. AMD is still selling discrete Radeon 3450 which can be slower than the 790GX IGP if the 790GX has an HT 3.0 CPU and fast memory. There is a market for low end parts, and one more Intel sale will mean one less sale for AMD or NVIDIA. At least we can test the RV610 (740G, 780G and 790GX) with real games, real drivers and real systems...They also likely used the easiest 25 sequential frames to render in each of those games. The quality settings could be default or lower again because they didn't specify them... Yep, as I mentioned earlier there is no accurate method of comparing Larrabee to the competition at this point because of all the unknowns.