Sounds like Llano is expected to be the majority of the market for AMD. They better hope it clocks high or it'll get eaten alive by the i3s!
Bad news for AM3 owners though, Thuban's/Phenom II's will probably not be getting any cheaper.
What are you smoking? Anyone remember this:Seems like AMD is talking a little too much recently. Usually when they have something to be proud of, they are quite silent. (See: 4XXX on the GPU side).
don't get me wrong, i've been using nothing but amd since my athlon xp 2500...but i've been hearing about bulldozer etc etc for years now, and they're talking about one *more* year? how is this rapid and ambitious???
Probably end up like current I3/Athlon II comparisons, I3 is superior single threaded and Athlon II X4 is better for multithreaded software.
What are you smoking? Anyone remember this:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2679/3
They were not quiet lol.
The SB based i3 performs really, really close to the Athlon II x4 in multithreaded apps:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/188?vs=289
If Intel didn't lock out overclocking for the SB i3's it would be a solid choice over most AMDs.
AMD is WAY behind in IPC. I wish it weren't so there would be some actual competition, but unfortunately, it's pretty much just a fact. It's to the point where Intel duals are reasonably competitive with AMD quads clock for clock... That's bad.
Llano may improve some, but don't expect miracles. Maybe a little extra OC headroom from 32nm and a single digit percent IPC improvement. I think Llano stands to gain a fair bit of market just from likely being a significantly better GPU side than SB and I am assuming better drivers and implementation.