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During the Technology Analyst Day, AMD announced their roadmap. 65nm products will be firstly supplied to the OEM market in December, and then DIY in 07 Q1. Speculation around the world is still wondering what AMD is still sleeving to take down Intel’s mighty rollout.

They includes Athlon 64x2 4200+ (2.2Ghz/512KB L2 x2), Athlon 64x2 4400+ (2.2GHz/1MB L2 x2), Athlon 64x2 4600+ (2.4GHz/512KB L2 x2) and Athlon 64x2 4800+ (2.4GHz/1MB L2 x2). Yet Athlon 64x2 5000+ (2.6GHz/512KB L2 x2), Athlon 64x2 5200+ (2.6GHz/1MB L2 x2), Athlon 64x2 5400+ (2.8GHz/512KB L2 x2), FX-62(2.8GHz/1MB L2 x2) and FX-64(3.0GHz/1MB L2 x2) would still maintained at 90nm process. 65nm process would be common in 2007, by the launch of K8L architecture in the second part of the year. K8L architecture will have larger cache and support Hyper-Transport 3.0. The first 4 cores process will appear in the Server market. In 2008, quad cores processor with build-in DDR3 controller will be released for workstation and desktop. In order to raising their productivity, 45nm process is expected to introduce in 2008 as well.

Source: hkepc.com

csimon

my next upgrade! hehe

airbornflght

why not go the dual processor quad core route, everyone can use 8 logical processors!!, not too sure about affording them, but everyone can use them, hell, I could have each program on a core..have all my startups on one, winamp on another, firefox and outlook on another, photoshop on another, and F@H on the rest!!!