I believe that these architectural features will allow Kentsfield to succeed in the short term against both the 4×4 platform and AMD’s own quad-core architecture when it arrives later in the year. By that time though, I would hope that Intel’s architects were well on their way to completing a native quad-core version of Conroe with all four cores sharing the same cache.
After reading the article over at Bit-Tech, you may question your need for a Conroe right away. If Quad Cores are actually going to see the light of day in 5 – 6 months, it will certainly make current processor purchases seem like a waste of time.