Triple Core Phenoms To Show Up At CeBIT, Quad Cores Delayed
While ATI's latest cards are all very good deals for their prices, offering an excellent performance/price ratio, AMD processors are completely overrun by Intel's ones, and with the latest low-end offers, such as the E2xxx series, they seem to have lost the entry-level processors market too. To make things even worse, it seems some retailers are only selling a few AMD processors, and I say this because my favorite hardware store had a lot of them around Christmas, and now there's almost no AMD CPU there... Anyway, now I have some good news, because AMD announced the triple-core Phenoms should arrive at CeBIT 2008 Expo!
According to latest statements from various sources at motherboard makers, the triple-core Phenoms, 8400 and 8600, together with the low-power quad-core 9100e, should be presented at CeBIT 2008. No matter how interesting sounds a low power quad-core (maybe I can get one for my "ancient" 3 months old motherboard...), the high-end Phenom 9700 and 9900 processors are not going to arrive as previously scheduled, due to the TLB bug.
This bug delayed AMD in raising the frequencies of the cores, and I hope they make it in time. Each new delay ads another nail to AMD's coffin, and while the situation is not that worse, they should be very careful, because now is the worst time for any new delays or bugs discovered after releasing processors to the public.
Finally, the sources also noted that Phenom 8700, 9700 and 9900 will be released as the Phenom 8750, 9750 and 9950, so the triple-core processors available in the first quarter will be labeled 8450, 8650 and 8750. For the others, we will have to wait until the second quarter, if everything works fine.
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