THE RUMOUR MILL claims that AMD is bringing forward the launch of its six-core desktop CPUs. Details are fairly light. One report of the rumour is at Fudzilla and therefore is likely to originate from suppliers rather than direct from Chimpzilla.
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THE RUMOUR MILL claims that AMD is bringing forward the launch of its six-core desktop CPUs.
Details are fairly light. One report of the rumour is at Fudzilla and therefore is likely to originate from suppliers rather than direct from Chimpzilla.
If the rumour is correct, and that seems to us to be likely, it is only a slight change of plan for AMD. It will mean bringing the chips code-named 'Thuban' forward by a quarter to match Intel's launch of its Core i7 980X processor.
While AMD's six-core range of chips will hit the shops a bit later than Intel's Core i7 980X, that will still thrust AMD into the running. It will not take much because the 980X was reported as Intel's only six-core currently planned for 2010.
AMD's six-core 45nm processors will come with 6MB L3 cache, C-state performance boost as well as DDR3 1333MHz support. They will be supported by existing AM3 motherboards and should work in most existing models.
Source: Inquirer
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