AMD’s 45nm, quad-core Phenom II has finally arrived. It’s available in two flavors, the 2.8GHz X4 920 and the 3.0GHz X4 940 Black Edition, going for $235 and $275, respectively. AMD’s naturally touting the ostensible cost savings of the chips . The Dragon platform includes a Phenom II proc, 4800-series Radeon HD graphics and a [...]
AMD have is 1 year behind Intel Corp. with its quad-core microprocessors aimed at notebooks. The first quad-core chip for laptops from AMD will only emerge in 2010.
The first quad-core CPU for notebooks in AMD’s line will be code-named “Champlain” and will be the base of the code-named “Danube” platform. There are no details about [...]
Intel plans to release low-power quad-core desktop processors for desktops in the first quarter of next year. The new chips will be strong competitors for energy-efficient quad-core chips by AMD which have been available for about half a year now.
The new Intel Core 2 Quad processors with reduced power consumption will have thermal design power [...]
