CPU/Mobo Turion X2s to arrive in May

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dipdude

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Four SKUs on its wagon

AMD IS GOING to launch Turion X2s in early May, and there will be four SKUs (stock keeping units).

It will introduce :



  • [*]1.6GHz / 512K x 2

    [*]1.8GHz / 512K x 2

    [*]2.0GHz / 512K x 2

    [*]1.6GHz / 256K x 2


All have an extremely low supply voltage of 1.075V, so power use should be pretty miserly.

There are two problems I see with these chips. First, they may have the same problem as the X2s, the cores are not independently powered or clocked. If this is the case battery life will suffer with compared to Yonah.

The other problem is availability. Yonah will have been ramping for two quarters by the time X2s hit, so initial availability may be pretty tight.
 
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