AMD Phenom - a new family of processors with 4 cores
The second largest manufacturer of PC CPUs - AMD - on Monday officially unveiled its new line of processors called Phenom. Their main difference from both the already manufactured products of AMD itself, and from the proposals of its main competitor Intel is the “real” (that is, “true”) quad core. According to the company, Intel’s quad core is “unnatural,” which only placed two dual-core chips under one cover. Estimated date of appearance of new processors on store shelves - the second half of this year. They will go out, starting with the flagship - Phenom FX.
Although the main technical characteristics of any of the representatives of the line (Phenom FX, X2 and X4) have not yet been announced, some fragmentary information about them has long been leaked to the press. It is known that each core will have its own L2 512 KB cache, and together they will share the L3 cache with a size of 2 MB. The proprietary HyperTransport 3 will act as the system bus. The top-end CPUs will be installed in the new Socket F connector, and their less productive counterparts - in the already familiar AM2. All models will work with DDR 2 memory and will have 128-bit math coprocessors.
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Although the main technical characteristics of any of the representatives of the line (Phenom FX, X2 and X4) have not yet been announced, some fragmentary information about them has long been leaked to the press. It is known that each core will have its own L2 512 KB cache, and together they will share the L3 cache with a size of 2 MB. The proprietary HyperTransport 3 will act as the system bus. The top-end CPUs will be installed in the new Socket F connector, and their less productive counterparts - in the already familiar AM2. All models will work with DDR 2 memory and will have 128-bit math coprocessors.
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