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AMD starts shipping 3-core Phenom

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:08:41 +0000

2008 will be the year of the triple core CPU. AMD started to ship the Phenom chips in various configurations.

As said before, this is a great way for AMD to differentiate itself, but the prices are not expected to go down immediately. Either because AMD does not want to shoot itself in the foot or because the quantities will not be huge for a few more weeks.

Let’s wait for the next price war between Intel and AMD, remembering that most games do not take advantage of more than 2 cores.

Phenom, incompatible with existing AM2 motherboards?

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:22:47 +0000

This is more or less what has to be concluded from reading the articles currently published about the compatibility (more supposed than real) between the new AMD 4-core processor and the existing AM2-socket motherboards. But it seems that AMD will have to be a little more patient.

This is not a very good omen for the financial come-back of Intel’s main competitor that is still depending a lot of this year’s launch of 3- and 4-core processors.

Source: Tom’s hardware.