Like I said many times, zen will be, at 350$ a 300-400% uptick in profit per unit sold over a 8350 that sold at 200$ at proffit.
If amd wants to price shit like intel, they they have to perform like intel, and they fucking dont.
people keep saying amd will have 8 cores be 500$, well you just killed the entirety of the cpu line because intel has a 6 core for cheaper, and is guaranteed 100% 100% of the time while amd only hits 100% 80% of the time in their own words. you are paying 500$ for the worst binned chips amd has to offer, and then some people thing the better ones will be 700-900$, welp, now you are in may as well go intel territory because they are not an unknown.
amd needs an upset, at the very least it would be a massive short term grab, as in, they price their base 8 core at 350, a 6 core at 250 and a 4 core at 150, with that price, you negate any reason or want to go with the i3 and i5, possibly some people would go i7 because higher overall clocks, but not if they were smart, you then throw a punch at intel's 6 core's, its 8 core, and even its 10 core.
why the 10 core?
because, you could build an entire amd 8 core system in the cost of that 10 core, and that 8 core could be a dedicated render box, and probably still have room left over for a very good 4 or 6 core build. if you are getting intel 10 core, you are getting it because you don't have the money for a dedicated render box, but have use for one. what amd does with the opteron lines will likely throw just as big of punches at intel where amd does not have a clear advantage, and will just flat out stomp intel where they do, see naples 32 core 8 channel memory.
they have a chance to hit everything hard, and it all comes down to price, they would be stupid to price close to intel
There was a retarded slide a while ago that said naples would have 256/512mb l2 or l3 cache,