Interesting (and disppointing) with this

However, 219 to 118 mm2 is 53% of shrink, pretty impressive; I'm not surprised if Brisbane prices are constantly dropping.

Looks like prices never stop dropping; The famous April price drops might see the E4300/6300 at about $140-130 but then the X2 3800+/ 3600+ are going to be as low as low as $80 :twisted:

This information contradicts what they gave review sites in the press kits.... interesting.... I believe this is indeed more accurate. However, it is odd that they would go to 1/2 multipliers to deliniate their product and not take advantage of the extra cache... perhaps also brushing off the added L2 latency.

It doesn't make sense though .... I can see why Intel did the 2 meg 4 meg combo with all parts initially 4 meg but 2 disalbled as redundancy allows you to take a otherwise bad 4 meg die and make it a good 2 meg die... this saves money.

But to intentionally make a 2 Meg part but only use 1 meg and have the larger die.... this makes no sense... but it is on AMD's web site, this is the most accurate you can get.... so I will take it for that.

Why would they specify that there are different transistor/cache models, but only specify 1 90nm die size? I think they are trying to make their shrink look good.

You may be, I don't know.... we will know just how healthy AMD's 65 nm process is in a few months, the mobile products are due out any time now... but given the power constraints, and the tweaks necessary to get that under control --- if those are delayed then the 65 nm process has no margin for error and logical conclusion would be they cannot yield the right bins.