Sources close to AMD, reported that the manufacturer intends to implement a dynamic performance technology in its upcoming six-core processors, known as the Phenom II X6 and bearing the code name for Thuban.

This technique is called "C-state performance boost" and works similar technology Intel Turbo Boost. If for the current problem requires a smaller number of threads, processors Thuban will automatically disable the idle cores and overclock the remaining up to the maximum possible level.

If this is true, then AMD will be a fairly strong argument in competition with Intel.