My first readings.

Tulwila is 1.9 billion Transistor unit, similar in class to Dunington.
So reading on Nahalem, previous Generation than Tukwila, with only 733 Million Transistors isn't direct, especially since Bloomfield? test showed one core alone, does NOT Function Properly, of course that may be due simply to turning other 3 cores off somehow. In all 8 threads enabled Nahalem seemed fine.

MyPoint. Tukwila is in Alpha/alpha testing. It has Huge Bunch o' stuff around edges of Die to enable plug in testing equipment, thers NO Known Final Die, So to even have seen thing Run in its' Test Stage is Privileged. I doubt such Early Working Test Die means Much More than It Really Exists.

On Nahalem, Maybe in reality Each Core Needs more Smoothing, as Its: LACK of LOAD that Slips it by as GOOD.
Thomas Drashek

Deliver us from the PhD

Please ban Mr/Dr/Sir Thomas Drashek from this site, my head won't stop spinning for quite some time after reading his comments (even though I only go so far as the first punctuation mark each time).

Thanks in advance

[Erm, don't read 'em. Ed.]

What a shame

@Thomas

If Tukwila is in alpha stage, why would Intel show its HIGH RELIABILITY(!) CHIP FOR HIGH-END SERVERS in public just to embarrass itself?

What a shame dude...