Fall CPU Roadmap from AMD
While AMD concentrates almost entirely on the latest details of the 45nm Deneb launch, it still manages to find enough time to take care of some soon-to-be released entry-level and mainstream chips.
Initially expected to hit the market in early 2009, the 45nm CPUs from AMD appear to be a bit rushed, since a new leaked document obtained by CHW shows that December should see the start of production of the new Phenom quad-core X4 chips with 45nm architecture, and these are not featuring the Deneb micro-architecture. It appears that the new CPU’s are only dye-shrinks of the existing ones and are rated at 3.0GHz and 2.8GHz, using up 125W of power. As always, the volumes will be minimal in December and the CPUs are expected to be available worldwide only in January 2009.
The leaked document also mentions that the 15W AMD Athlon 2650e – expected to compete with the Intel Atom – is scheduled for a November release, with a clock speed reportedly rated at 1.5GHz. A faster dual-core X2 3250e rated at 1.5GHz and using up 22W of power is also going to be released in order to compete with the upcoming dual-core Atom. Both CPUs are said to have slightly higher power requirements than their Atom counterparts, but AMD is confident they’ll end up faster and cheaper.
Other CPUs that will be launched this fall include a dual-core Athlon X2 processor, model number 5050e, with a 2.6GHz clock speed and low 45W power consumption, plus a three-core 8850 chip rated at 2.5GHz and 95W of energy use. OK, enough with this entry-level stuff; we want the Deneb!
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