Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 8/5/10 wrote:
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>Michael S (already5chosen@yahoo.com) on 8/5/10 wrote:
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>>In fact, Core2 has either 6 cores per die (Dunnington) or 2 cores per die (the rest).

I checked and you're right, the Core2 Quads are dual-die
parts.

Anyhow, it doesn't really affect the argument that much:
the question was how many products get made for the NRE
of developing a core architecture. And from that point of
view, it doesn't really matter whether the different
products with different numbers of cores are done as
different chips or by replicating the same chip. Either
way you're reusing the core design.