Deneb 45nm K10.5 works just fine

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Samples up and running
AMD has samples of K10.5 quad core codenamed Deneb for some time now and the big customers such as HP and Dell have already seen this baby.

It looks promising and it works, but this doesn’t mean that the production will go flawlessly. The first samples of K10 were finished in December 2006 and it didn’t help AMD solve the problems that occurred at launch in September 2007.

Intel’s Nehalem is also taped out in some point in August 2007 but it doesn’t mean that Nehalem will be on schedule and executed flawlessly either, but it is more likely to happen. For AMD’s sake, we hope that Deneb 45nm K10.5 will come in early second half of 2008 and that it will work well as the company needs a big comeback in the CPU arena.

Deneb is the hope that can get K10 based marchitecture to over 3.0GHz and this the least AMD needs to compete with Intel’s Core 2 Extreme quad core generation.

Fudzilla - Deneb 45nm K10.5 works just fine

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Shanghai K10.5 to come at 2.8GHz+ speeds

Can jump over 3GHz

We’ve learned that Shanghai, AMD’s K10.5 can show Intel its teeth and after a few quarters of delays, it should be ready to show what the K10 is made of.

Shanghai K10.5 is a native quad core 45nm and it will be the first AMD to commercially jump over 3GHz speed.

Shanghai K10.5 supports existing boards and DDR2 memory so the upgrade path is easy with this CPU. It is scheduled for second half of 2008 and AMD is still not ready to fix any more accurate date than that. We just hope that it can launch these chips before we have to reach for our autumn / winter jackets.

With this chip AMD might have a chance to get back.

Fudzilla - Shanghai K10.5 to come at 2.8GHz+ speeds

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Phenom 9900 at 2.6GHz is a B3

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Comes in late Q2

We learned that AMD’s last and fastest K10 at 65nm will launch at 2.6GHz. It is based on the B3 version of the K10 core and it won’t have any overblown TLB issues. There are two names in the game: Phenom 9900 and Phenom 9950 and we still don’t know which is the final one.

After this 2.6GHz part AMD plans to reveal Shanghai K10.5 based CPU to replace the 65nm brothers and naturally these new 45nm chips will be capable of much higher speeds.

Since we know that the CPU launches in late Q2 we shouldn’t expect it before late May or June time, but Computex sounds like a good place for launch.

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AMD’s Stars 45nm cores can make it in Q3

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But also slip to Q4

Today was the first time that we get a bit more accurate timeframe for the 45nm K10.5 launch. AMD internally informed its gang that the new Star cores, all 45nm should launch in Q3 and Q4.

It wasn’t really as precise as we would have liked it to be but it is the best we have so far. Previously, AMD only communicated that its 45nm K10.5 generation is scheduled for the second half of 2008.

The Deneb FX and Deneb cores, both 45nm quad-cores, are the first on the list. If they execute well we should see Deneb quad-core with shared L3 cache and 95W TDB in Q3. If not, the new hope will slip into Q4.

The second on the list will launch very close to Deneb, if not even simultaneously. It is known as Propus, which is the same as Deneb quad-core 45nm design, but it doesn’t have any L3 cache.

Triple-core Heka and Dual-core Regor both 45nm are scheduled for early 2009.

Fudzilla - AMD’s Stars 45nm cores can make it in Q3

[Arun.P]

well we we see how battle amd vs intel benchmark test