BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Right, 150W. And 3.2 Ghz Yorkfield still will not be better in performance than say 2.6 Ghz Opteron, that will too consume hefty 120W.
P.S don't forget to add 20-30W for Yorkfield external memory controller and add some excessive consumption of its accompanied FDIMMs and then try to compare their overall performance/consumption ratio. AFAIK, last time something like this has happened at Intel (and everywhere) with Tejas engineering samples. But Yorkfield will not be withdrawn dead born baby like Tejas was. Thus, we have obviously Intel in troubles. It rises clock to counter Opteron higher IPC . And rises that way power consumption, but not linearly. Let me conclude,
Yorkfield is BAD HARDWARE HEAVYWEIGHT champion for 2008. And of all times.
Here below is what has been promised in 2006, and up is what is actually delivered. 3,73 Ghz Yorkfield in Q3. HAHAHAHAHAHA. The Emperor has nothing of its shiny clothes.


All hype was actually based on overclocks like this one below.