Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/08/amd_rolls_out_first_phenom_2/
AMD rolls out first Phenom IIs
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Posted in Hardware, 8th December 2008 12:24 GMT
AMD doesn't appear to have said as much itself, but one report claims the chip maker has today formally announced its Phenom II processor.
The claim comes [1] from US site EE Times. Since North American journalists are only now climbing out of bed, we imagine the story comes from a pre-briefing given to the title and presumably scheduled to go live today.
Early or not, the cat's out of the sack, and - as expected [2] - AMD's latest quad-core desktop offering is a 3GHz chip fabbed at 45nm with a Socket AM3 interconnect and a memory controller capable of connecting to DDR2 and DDR 3 memory, the latter clocked at up to 1333MHz.
AMD is also launching a 65nm version that's limited to DDR 2 and use the Socket AM2+ interconnect.
The 3GHz Phenom II X4 is priced at $275 - a cheaper, $235 version runs at 2.8GHz. EE Times didn't provide the model numbers, but World+Dog knows them to be the 940 and the 920, with the AM3 versions numbered 945 and 925.
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and X58 chipset review [3]