Octal-core on MCM is as useless as Quad SLI. (For Intel anyway, DAAMIT seems to be rather keen on their Shanghai )
Intel would likely need a 2+Gigahertz FSB for that, and they have problems pushing even 1666 nowadays.

Word has it that the next major marchitecture revamp (Nehalem) *might* not have the integrated memory controller (what's been helping AMD so much) on desktop chips, but unless they overcome their FSB woes, MCM-ing quads or four duos will be a tough take from a performance standpoint.

Maybe P45 and X48 will have liquid cooling then. 
(And getting only the XE with IMC doesn't solve platform unity, so P45 still needs crazy cooling )

LOL, well, coherent HTT?

Last time, Honda V-Tech technology was licensed by itself, nowadays, Toyota make itself VVT-i /VVTL-i (this 1 really can even with i-Vtec), do Toyota pay Honda any royalty?

Nissan has NEO VVL / C-VTC

Perodua has DVVT

Gen2 has Campro / CPS

Hyundai has HIVEC

Mitsubishi has MIVEC

Do they all pay Honda royalty by having those variable timing technology ?
back to topic, I think Intel can straight away go to HTT version 3.0, is that coherent of HTT 3.0 belongs to AMD too?

If not, would u think FSB still can last how long?

Nahalem may have hyper threading back.

Will but it is rather arguable whether ANY consumer centric app would even utilize enough threads to even make use of HT...

Server apps harly have any use for HT IIRC. IMO they shouldn't be splitting more resources into more threads, rather trying the reverse instead- if that is possible without much intervention from native OS.

Of course increasing utilization will increase power and hot spots, but it's still better than idle units that are leaking power doing nothing.