[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Intel used this method for Core 2 Quads and the Xeons of the time. In fact, Intel has been using this for their Nehalem CPUs with more than 4 cores and more. Guess what? AMD does it too. AMD does this for the Magny-Cours and Interlagos Opterons. So, is AMD going to get a big FU in the mail from Intel soon, inviting AMD to a party in a court house with this as the theme?[/citation]
Thats not quite right. Westmere was the first 6 core from Intel, it was a 32nm die shrink of Nehalem. It was a monolithic die, not MCM like Core 2 Quad or Pentium D.
Nehalem-EX was the first 8 core CPU and it as well is also a monolithic design, not MCM. In fact Nehalem EX is currently Intels largest CPU in terms of die size and amount of cores in the CPU itself. None of Intels current CPUs are MCM, they have SMT which allows multiple threads per core but thats it.
AMDs 12 core is two Thuban 6 cores in a MCM package much like Core 2 Quad but Intel is not going to do that again for a while, except with possibly Haswell and the L4 Cache.