AMD Announces Quad-Core Processors
Filed in archive PC Hardware by Eric Hanson on May 15, 2007
After suffering months of beatings in the market at the hands of chief competitor Intel, AMD finally has the processor line that it hopes will get it back into the black and back into the hearts and minds of computer users across the world: the Phenom . The new chip, which will replace most of AMD's older Athlon offerings, will come in quad- and dual-core versions roughly consistent with AMD's current processor offerings and will feature what AMD calls "[the i]ndustry's only true x86 quad-core architecture," where all four processor cores will coordinate via electronics on the CPU die instead of through connections in the rest of the motherboard, eliminating a bottleneck inherent in Intel's quad-core design. The new Phenoms will start shipping in the second half of this year.
Two points of interest about this announcement: first, the architecture change that theoretically makes these [...]
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