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AMD updates processor launch schedule
William Henning - Monday, March 17th, 2008 | 11:25AM (PST)


B3 stepping appears to be a "GO"

Digitimes reports that AMD plans to launch B3 stepping Phenom processors within the next two weeks.

  • Phenom 9850 @ 2.5GHz
  • Phenom 9750 @ 2.4GHz
  • Phenom 9650 @ 2.3GHz
  • Phenom 9550 @ 2.2GHz
  • Phenom 9150 @ ???GHz

Supposedly AMD plans on bringing out higher speed versions in Q3.

Apparently we will also have B3 stepping triple core Phenoms launching in late April, with a 65W TDP.

  • Phenom 8750 @ 2.4GHz
  • Phenom 8650 @ 2.3GHz
  • Phenom 8450 @ ???GHz

AMD will also apparently launch some dual core parts.

  • Athlon 64 X2 5800+
  • Athlon X2 5600+ Black Edition
  • Athlon X2 4600+

And Phenom-based dual core parts by end of Q2:

  • Athlon 6250
  • Athlon 6050

Orders will stop being taken for some dual core Athlon's

  • Athlon 64 X2 6400+
  • Athlon 64 X2 6000+
  • Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (89W version)

 

 


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March 19th, 2008 11:13PM(PST)
The Slayer
Whats the point in having the triple core processors? That almost seems like a step in the wrong direction IMO. If AMD wants to catch up, they need to get into quad core, 6 core, and even start plans for an 8 core processor with some high speeds...
March 19th, 2008 11:57PM(PST)
VeGiTAX2
It'd probably pay to look at their roadmaps and previous partner announcements, they've been working on multi-core for quite some time and have no plans at stopping on 4.

It gives them a better foothold to run 3 cores and compete at a lower pricepoint against the E6850 and E6750 instead of selling dual core parts that either barely match or get stomped out. The point of the game is sales afterall, not playing fair and hoping the consumer understands.

Given the design of the chip they should be able to disable cores in the factory seeing as they have a dedicated quad core part and they're not dealing with 2 dual core chips linked over a high speed bus like Intel is dealing with right now. (Funny enough they're working around the clock on a single chip solution finally and admitting the problems encountered with just slapping down an extra pair of cores on a chip)

The biggest thing they need to tackle in general though is their power consumption and their clock speeds, many people have been cranking up the speeds of the present chips but it's not enough because the average joe doesn't want to have to void the warranty on their chip to get better numbers.

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