Apokalipse
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with restricted bandwith between the cores, and no way to really effectively share the L2 cache between all the cores.man this all started from my whys everyone calling intels not real quads. but i do agree with maroon1, a quad is a quad no matter which way u look at it. i mean u sayin its just two dual cores put together, sounds like a qaud to me.
Having all four cores on one die is essential for the L3 cache on AMD's Phenom CPU's to be shared between all cores.
Plus, the Hypertransport bus would likely be crippled with more than one die (and it would be more complicated to set up whatever memory controller system it would need)
Intel's FSB won't be affected as much by having two die's, but it is still affected nontheless.
Two dies means less performance than it could get. simple as that.