In a bid to offer as fast central processing units, as Intel Corp. does with its Core 2 Duo, Advanced Micro Devices is expected to significantly broaden its lineup of advanced microprocessors in the fourth quarter of the year, just in time to coincide with the beginning of Core 2 Duo promotional campaign.
As reported earlier, the top-of-the-range chips in AMD’s family will be intended for the 4x4 platform and will require to be installed in pairs. For typical performance-demanding users AMD will unveil new speed-bins of AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors with model number up to 6000+ and clock-speed up to 3.00GHz.
In November, 2006, AMD is expected to release AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ (2.80GHz, 1MB L2 cache [512KB per core]), 5600+ (2.80GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB per core]) and 6000+ (3.00GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB per core]), according to Tweakers.net web-site. The 5400+ and 5600+ chips will fit into 98W power envelope, whereas the 6000+ will consume up to 125W.
Also, later on AMD plans to unveil Athlon 64 FX-70 (2.60GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB per core]), FX-72 (2.80GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB per core]) and FX-74 (3.00GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB per core]) microprocessors in 1207-pin form-factor for AMD 4x4 platform. Even though the cost of a 4x4 system will be very high, as AMD Athlon 64 FX-series processors cost around $1000 each, however, the 4x4 represents “performance at any cost” approach, which should dethrone the Intel Core 2 Duo and Extreme processors.
All the high-speed dual-core processors from AMD will be made using 90nm process technology this year
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