AMD Q4'06 Dual-Core Roadmap

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AMD leaks its 4x4 plans

Three new 4x4 processors will arrive with the upcoming November launch of AMD’s enthusiast 4x4 platform. New Athlon Socket-F 64 FX processors include the FX-74, FX-72 and FX-70. These processors will be clocked at 3.0 GHz, 2.8 GHz and 2.6 GHz respectively. All three processors will have a 2x1MB L2 cache configuration and be based on AMD’s Windsor core with a 2000 MHz Hyper Transport frequency. AMD rates the three processors with a 125 watt TDP. Features such as AMD64, NX Bit and Virtualization technologies are supported.

AMD’s mainstream dual-core lineup will receive a couple new updates as well. Also arriving in November will be new Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 5600+, and 5400+. This will be AMD’s first new Athlon 64 X2 processor launch since the launch of the socket AM2 platform—Athlon 64 X2 5200+ excluded. These processors will have 3.0 GHz and 2.8 GHz clock speeds respectively.

Athlon 64 X2 models 6000+ and 5600+ will have a 2x1MB L2 cache configuration while the lower X2 5400+ will have a 2x512KB configuration. AMD rates the TDP for the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ as 125 watts while the lower 5600+ and 5400+ receive 89 watt ratings. Availability is expected in November with no mention of Energy Efficient models.

AMD’s 65nm processors received a small reorder; the 4600+ is gone, but AMD has added a new 5000+ chip instead. The 65nm chips are expected to sample in December 2006, with official shipments still slated for Q1’07.

Gone from AMD’s roadmap are the FX-64 and FX-66 processors. Although DailyTech had very few details on these chips during the previous roadmap, it appears as though the chips may have just been renamed to the FX-“70” series. No pricing has been announced for the new FX-70s – AMD has never released more than one FX series processor in a single launch. Typically the FX series CPUs are devoted to only a small audience with an extremely high price tag. Official pricing for the new processors was not revealed.

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[IceFusion]

just read it… Would be intresting to see how the new FX series stand to the Intel Core 2 duo extreme series…

[sunbiz_3000]

Im sure Core 2 will still beat FX hands down… the real war begins after K8L’s 2nd generation is released…and that’ll be sometime in Q4’ 07… So another year’s lead to Intel!!