AMD is trying to take back some parts of the CPU market. While Intel is on its way to release the new Nehalem processors, AMD is planning to launch some low-power triple-corequad-core processors at the end this year. These chips are expected to come with a TDP of 65W. From the performance point of view, AMD's new processors are far from Intel's latest CPUs, but they will certainly provide a good performance/price ratio, as is already customary with all AMD chips.
AMD is set on releasing two low-power triple-core Phenom processors, named X3 8250e and 8450e respectively, with core frequencies of 1.9GHz and 2.1GHz, respectively, and both will have an L2 cache of 1.5MB and L3 cache of 2MB. The two CPUs are expected to enter DVT this summer, in July, while mass production for the new AMD CPUs is due to start at the beginning of August.
Meanwhile, AMD is expected to launch the low-power quad-core Phenom X4 9350e in the third quarter of this year. Two other models will follow in the fourth quarter and the first quarter of 2009, which is when AMD will start rolling out its 45nm quad-core CPUs (Propus), targeting core frequencies between 2.3-2.6 GHz.
Sources claim that AMD is determined to have the Phenom X4 9850 (2.5GHz) and the 9950 (2.6GHz) enter DVT in the third quarter, and ship in the following three months. The company is also to launching two 45nm Phenom X4 CPUs by the end of the fourth quarter, both of them with core frequencies between 2.4-2.8GHz.
Unfortunatellu AMD did not make any official statement regarding the new CPU lineup.
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