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AMD to Phase Out Several Phenom II X4 CPUs, Readies Six-Core Chip

Posted 11/02/09 at 08:59:26 AM by Paul Lilly

According to AMD's updated CPU release schedule, the chip maker plans to put several Phenom II X4 900 series chips on the chopping block. The company has already stopped taking orders for the Phenom II X4 910 (2.6Ghz) and 945 (3.0GHz) and will stop shipments in the second quarter of 2010.

Starting in the first quarter of 2010, AMD will no longer take orders for its Phenom II X4 965 (3.4GHz) and 925 (2.8Ghz) processors, while orders for the Phenom II X4 955 (3.2GHz) are scheduled to end in the second quarter.

In addition to the above named parts, AMD will start phasing out its Phenom II X4 800, X3 700, and X2 500 series, and Athlon II X4 600 and X3 400 series sometime next year.

To replenish its CPU lineup, AMD plans to launch a 95W Phenom II X4 955 processor in Q2 2010, as well as its six-core desktop chip codenamed Thuban. The 2.8Ghz Thuban part will be built around a 45nm manufacturing process and come with 512KB of L2 cache and 6MB of L3 cache.

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Submitted by JuanSolid on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 12:47pm

I would love to see a 6 core chip by amd, but the core i series is still showing 8 cores (physically 4) and kicking butt. 6 cores is good, and a purist will perfer these cores to 4 that simulate 8.

However with timing and the supposed announcement that amd is working on 32nm processors with a expected release of 2011, whats the difference of 6 months? Phenom II's life span is, what, 9 months? I root for AMD so intel does not become a monopoly and just start holding back tech for profit, but I am feeling a bit guilty here. If the Phenom II did not have near the same benchmarks with DDR3 I think I would not feel so bad. Seeing that makes me feel like I bought a brand new car with a 3 speed maximum transmission lol.

If I had to choose right now what to build, the $100 difference between a core i5 and phenomII would not make me willing to lose the near 40% benchmark difference.

At least the graphics card's are kicking butt :/.

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