Oct 15, 2007 1 pm
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AMD reveals the model names and operating frequencies of its quad-core Phenom desktop processors
AMD plans to debut its initial quad-core Phenom processors in late November: the Phenom 9600 and 9500. The 9600 will come clocked at 2.4GHz and the 9500 will have a slightly lower operating frequency of 2.2GHz.
Both Socket AM2+ processors feature a 512KB of L2 cache for each core and a shared 2MB pool of L3 cache. In addition, both processors will operate on a 3.6GHz HyperTransport bus and will have an 89 Watt Thermal Design Power envelope.
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Oct 13, 2007 1 am
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Even though there are not a lot of single-core chips in Intel’s microprocessor lineup now, quad-core processors are not going to become really affordable soon enough.
After Intel introduces its new 45nm central processing units in January, 2008, the company will not cut pricing of its Intel Core 2 Quad below $266.
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Oct 9, 2007 12 am
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AMD plans to launch the new Triple-Core processor family by Q1 next year and it will be called Phenom 7-series instead.
The codename for the Triple-core processors is Toliman, a 65nm quad-core Agena core based with one core disabled. There will be 2 models at launch; Phenom 7700 and 7600 clocked at 2.5GHz and 2.3GHz respectively. Both processors will be AM2+ based, 3 x 512LB of L2 cache, 2MB of shared L3 cache and has TDP of 89W. We can expect DVT samples to be available by January, production by February and launch by March 2008. Further down the roadmap, we can see 3-core Heka based on 45nm quad-core Deneb with one core disabled supporting AM3 in H1 2009.
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Oct 4, 2007 2 pm
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Advanced Micro Devices announced yet another price slashing movement of its dual core central processing units.
On the other side of the fence Intel is preparing too as the company announced the imminent launch of two high performance desktop chipsets, as well as the soon to come release of its 45 nanometer processing units that are poised to directly compete with AMD’s product lines.
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Sep 27, 2007 11 am
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Spec.org Shows Off Performance of Quad-Core Chips from AMD and Intel
Benchmark results of AMD’s quad-core server processors in CPU 2006 benchmark suite from Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. were recently published at Spec.org, confirming that AMD’s new microprocessors have overwhelming advantage in floating point performance, but cannot boast with unprecedented integer performance.
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Sep 25, 2007 10 pm
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New processor, new price and new logo, starting from $163.
We have known that Intel’s first 45nm processor will be available on November 11 2007. The first one hit the market will be quad-core only: Yorkfield for desktop and Harpertown for server. To distinguish with the current 65nm product line, Intel will use a new naming schema for the 45nm processors: quad-core Yorkfield will be QX/Q9xxx and dual core Wolfdale is E8xxx.
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Sep 22, 2007 8 am
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The dream machine: Dual Quad-Core processors coupled with 8800GTX SLI.
Intel SkullTrail is an enthusiast gaming platform, which is a dual CPU system set to rival the AMD Quad FX platform. It is reported to have SLI and Quad SLI support.
Here are some extreme machines on IDF: One was powered by a 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (Yorkfield), another was a stock Skulltrail machine equipped with dual 3.4GHz quad-core processors, and the last system was a modded Skulltrail that was overclocked to 4GHz. The modded machine featured a pair of vapor phase-change coolers for the processors, liquid-cooled memory and GeForce 8800 GTX cards.
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Sep 20, 2007 2 am
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The most exciting processor today, AMD Barcelona, is on the shelf now.
Despite the mixed review, AMD’s new K10 remains quite mystery for normal users, AMD seems to have problem in producing enough chips to feed the enthusiasts. Anyway, Newegg manages to stock some and here you can get one for less than $800.
This is definitely something you can brag about for some time, just FYI, its a premium, and the Egg gouges like crazy for it. According to AMD, the price should be $316 for a retail box.
Source: DigitMemo
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Aug 18, 2007 3 pm
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X-Bit lab claim that the new AMD processor can compete successfully with Intel processors working at the same clock speed in a large number of applications and win the competition.
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