AMD Phenom X2 on its way to Europe

AMD has started to sell dual-core microprocessors featuring the latest K10 micro-architecture in Europe and is shipping its Phenom X2 parts for revenue.

AMD has started shipping AMD Phenom X2 GE-6400 (1.90GHz, 1MB of L2 cache [512KB per core], 2MB L3 cache), AMD Phenom GE-6500 (2.10GHz, 1MB of L2 cache [512KB per core], 2MB L3 cache) and AMD Phenom GE-6600 (2.30GHz, 1MB of L2 cache [512KB per core], 2MB L3 cache) microprocessors to channel customers.

Thermal design power of the chips is rumoured to be 45W, but indirect information points to 65W or even around 90W TDP, but it is definitely that the chips should be drop-in compatible with socket AM2+ infrastructure.

A lot of rumours have been surrounding the possible launch of the AMD Phenom X2 processors. Some indicated that dual-core K10 chips will only come out once AMD starts to produce 45nm microprocessors, some other implied that there will be no Phenom X2 chips in general. Now it looks like AMD Phenom X2 CPUs produced using 65nm process technology are here.
 

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