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[paulmd]

While I generally agree that CMT threads are not a real "core" (and has never been presented as such by any other company that has explored CMT), the real problem with Bulldozer was a frequency-optimized, deeply pipelined design. AMD literally repeated the exact mistake that Intel did with Netburst. It would never have been good no matter how you positioned it.

[Symmetry → paulmd]

And Apple with their low clocked super-braniac cell phone chips has been achieving surprisingly good performance for their power envelope.