Phenom II X4 955 in Apr & Phenom II X2 545/550 in May

[onethreehill]

據台灣主機板業者表示，由於 45nm Deneb 核心良率比預期優秀，原定於四月推出的 Phenom II X4 950 處理器將取消上市，由時脈更高的 Phenom II X4 955 取而代之。此外， AMD 亦計劃推出 Phenom II X2 500 雙核心家族，核心代號為 Callisto ，內建 7MB Total Cache ，暫定五月中旬上市。

據了解， AMD 原定於四月份推出 Phenom II X4 950 處理器，採用 Socket AM3 封裝，核心時脈為 3.1GHz ，內建 8MB Total Cache 、 TDP 為 125W ，但由於 45nm Deneb 核心良率比預期優秀，核心時脈提升空間十分充裕，因此 AMD 決定取消 Phenom II X4 950 處理器出現計劃，由核心時脈更高的 Phenom II X4 955 頂替。

Phenom II X4 955 同樣採用 Socket AM3 封裝，核心時脈為 3.2GHz ，內建 8MB Cache 、 TDP 同樣為 125W ，四月中旬上市。

此外， AMD 原無意採用 Phenom II 品牌推出兩核心處理器產品，但近日突然向主機板業者表示，將會於 5 月中旬推出 Phenom II X2 500 雙核心家族，採用 Socket AM3 封裝，核心代號為 Callisto 。

Source: HKEPC Hardware

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[Aerwidh]

Sounds nice, 3.2 quad makes more sense than 3.1 imo.

One of those dual-cores should be able to clock nicely, too, and have nice performance with all that cache

[hollo]

not surprising, their 45nm process is as good as their 65nm process was bad

[largon]

Chinese to Engrish translation of the source by Google:

AMD Phenom II X4 clock again upgraded in May to launch dual-core Phenom II X2!?

According to Taiwan's motherboard industry indicated that because of the core 45nm Deneb excellent yields than expected, scheduled for launch in April Phenom II X4 950 processor will cancel the listing, from a higher clock Phenom II X4 955 to replace. In addition, AMD also plans to launch Phenom II X2 500 dual-core family, the core code-named Callisto, built 7MB Total Cache, tentatively scheduled for listing in mid-May.

It is understood, AMD, originally scheduled for launch in April Phenom II X4 950 processors using Socket AM3 package, the core clock to 3.1GHz, built-in 8MB Total Cache, TDP is 125W, but because of 45nm Deneb core yields than expected, excellent The core clock room is very ample, so AMD has decided to cancel the processor Phenom II X4 950 plan emerged from a higher core clock Phenom II X4 955 replacement.

Phenom II X4 955 using Socket AM3 same package, the core clock to 3.2GHz, built-in 8MB Cache, TDP same as the 125W, listed in mid-April.

In addition, AMD has no intention of using the original brand to launch two Phenom II processor core products, but recently suddenly said to the motherboard industry, will be in mid-May launch of Phenom II X2 500 dual-core family, the use of Socket AM3 package, the core code-named Callisto .

And core, codenamed Regor, low-end dual-core Athlon X2 200 products separately, the main core is Callisto has a 6MB L3 Cache design Regor no L3 Cache. In addition, Callisto core TDP is 85W, Regor compared to 65W.

Now that Phenom II X2 500 early family listed a total of two models, including the Phenom II X2 545 and Phenom II X2 550, the core clock of 3.0GHz and 3.1GHz, price undetermined.

Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz 8MB Deneb Quad Core AM3 Apr, 2009
Phenom II X2 550 3.1GHz 7MB Callisto Dual Core AM3 May, 2009
Phenom II X2 545 3.0GHz 7MB Callisto Dual Core AM3 May, 2009

[GeorgeStorm]

This is great news, AMD are really using the advantage that their current process is really good, (trying to make up for their rather poor 65nm Phenoms)
I hope the quads perform well, and also come in at a still affordable price point, as thats the thing that makes them worth buying over the i7

[duploxxx]

before some people start commenting on those caches. I think they calculated l2+l3, also the reason why you see 8 for a quad and 7 for a dualthere is no way AMD is going to increase the current phenom2 line to 8MB on L3.

now how smart is the inq when creating rumours

Phenom to get fat cache

After spending some time trying to work out what Google's translator makes of the story, we gave up.

In short the nuts and bolts of it are:

A quad-core (Deneb) Phenom II X4 955 should tip up next month, running at 3.2GHz with 8MB cache.

In May comes a Dual Core (Callisto) Phenom II X2 550 running at 3.1GHz with 7MB cache.

Also in May comes a Phenom II X2 545 running at 3.0GHz and also sporting 7MB of cache.

We can't really see the point of that though.

We'd ask AMD about the story but all its PR representatives in the UK have been sacked so there's not much point in making a fuss until the US wakes up anyhow. µ

L'Inq
HKEPC

[flippin_waffles]

So I wonder if this is the hardware that will end up in Apple products.

[Donnie27]

So I wonder if this is the hardware that will end up in Apple products.

Nice joke, it was funny!

[ILikeCosmosS]

the whole point of release dual core phenoms and athlon x4's is to take the whole lower market from intel (core 2 line up)

thats the only reason i think amd releasing so many chips

[Donnie27]

the whole point of release dual core phenoms and athlon x4's is to take the whole lower market from intel (core 2 line up)

thats the only reason i think amd releasing so many chips

True but how long will it stay that way?

Answering a question in regards to the future competitiveness of AMD, Mr. Otellini replied that "The Mubadala guys will want a return on their investment", referring to the purchase of shares by Mubadala Development and "The Foundry Company" spinoff with the Advanced Technology Investment Corporation, both owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Since the current agreement is for a cost plus contract, AMD's costs will inevitably go up.

It will either mean their prices will go up or their margins will go down. This affects their ability to compete on price, which is the only advantage they have right now. There is no way their production costs will go down.

Intel isn't the only one saying what I said right after the deal was made. Sooner or later AMD will have to sell products with higher ASP.

[ILikeCosmosS]

i doubt intel will make new line up for the lower end market and if they do it will be with 32nm soo....

its a tough call but i think amd wont regret doing this though
they will gain a lot of ground from the lower end market segements
i mean there releasing a chip thats similar to a intel atom
they are really trying to get back in the game with what ever they can and i think they will succeed as for now the high end market is off limits

[Donnie27]

Maybe this part was missed. "Since the current agreement is for a cost plus contract, AMD's costs will inevitably go up." Yes it is a tough call but even Intel knows folks are value shopping when times are tough. Not having very compelling low-end products during a market downturn is a no-no. Intel and AMD are watching how the Atom took the market by storm. They are even being sold in Low-end desktops. Intel isn't about to concede the low end without a fight IMHO. That doesn't make much sense.

[v_rr]

True but how long will it stay that way?



Intel isn't the only one saying what I said right after the deal was made. Sooner or later AMD will have to sell products with higher ASP.

Margins can go down but on the other side Dirck Myer said that this move made by AMD will cut expenses from 1.5Bilion to 2Bilion dollars if you sum everything until the end of the year.
You don't have to pay fabs expenses, you don't have to pay Fab investments, you don´t have to pay 3000 more jobs each month.

Intel says: "It´s a bad move, it will be very bad" and on the other side is going to shift Intel ATOM prodution from Intel Fabs to TSMC. So says one thing and do other thing.

So do the math and AMD did it. And Intel is doing them also. Conclusion: Put TSMC building Atom.

[FlanK3r]

Hm, i hope for x4 945 will be to Black Edition, not only x4 955 :-)

[flippin_waffles]

Nice joke, it was funny!

Heh, which part do you think is lolocopter, this chip with Apple, or any AMD chip with Apple?

[Donnie27]

Margins can go down but on the other side Dirck Myer said that this move made by AMD will cut expenses from 1.5Bilion to 2Bilion dollars.
You don't have to pay fabs expenses, you don't have to pay Fab investments, you don´t have to pay 3000 more jobs.

Intel says: "It´s a bad move, it will be very bad" and on the other side is going to shift Intel ATOM prodution from Intel Fabs to TSMC. So says one thing and do other thing.

Because TSMC can under cut Intel's own FAB with an already low margin Atom. Intel already talked about TSMC doing NAND for them anyway. If AMD were only talking about low Margin products, that'd be fine but clearly they're not. AMD Saxonia GmbH, (company within a Company) look them and their contract up? AMD also paid less for the parts within their company than what they'll have to pay Abu-Daddy. Big risk! AMD will need pay a lower contract price then higher ASP and brisk sales to just break even. Yes, I could be wrong.

[Donnie27]

Heh, which part do you think is lolocopter, this chip with Apple, or any AMD chip with Apple?

Just this chip. Apple isn't married to Intel and if AMD shipped something that kicked Intel booty like the X2 did, Steve Jobs would come a knocking IMO. Just as Dell did

[Shintai]

Margins can go down but on the other side Dirck Myer said that this move made by AMD will cut expenses from 1.5Bilion to 2Bilion dollars if you sum everything until the end of the year.
You don't have to pay fabs expenses, you don't have to pay Fab investments, you don´t have to pay 3000 more jobs each month.

Intel says: "It´s a bad move, it will be very bad" and on the other side is going to shift Intel ATOM prodution from Intel Fabs to TSMC. So says one thing and do other thing.

So do the math and AMD did it. And Intel is doing them also. Conclusion: Put TSMC building Atom.

I think you get everything mixed up in the blindness dedication.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/090302/20090302005927.html?.v=1

Its a long term expansion of Atom. Since alot of companies dont want to have Intel producing their chips with Ips. Since Intel is a competitior. SoC designs with Atom. Competiting with Intels Atom SoC designs.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/d...rtnership.html

Under the newly signed memorandum of understanding, Intel would port its Atom processor CPU cores to the TSMC technology platform including processes, IP, libraries, and design flows. The result will allow fabless SoC developers to integrate Atom processing capabilities into SoC designs that are made at TSMC

[perkam]

Nice joke, it was funny!

Intel and Apple are sure-shot long term partners due to Intel's stable supply of chips and Intel's products being more powerful and more efficient then AMD's current offerings, albiet at a higher cost.

However, all AMD needs to do is to do a better job of innovating to catch Apple's attention. Hell need not be frozen over for Apple to use an AMD chip. That, and the fact that Apple doesn't give a hoot how much it charges its customers, they'll still wait in lines to get it, is also another factor Intel and Apple are meant to be together.

Perkam

[flippin_waffles]

Intel and Apple are sure-shot long term partners due to Intel's stable supply of chips and Intel's products being more powerful and more efficient then AMD's current offerings, albiet at a higher cost.

However, all AMD needs to do is to do a better job of innovating to catch Apple's attention. Hell need not be frozen over for Apple to use an AMD chip. That, and the fact that Apple doesn't give a hoot how much it charges its customers, they'll still wait in lines to get it, is also another factor Intel and Apple are meant to be together.

Perkam

True, but then again, I doubt there are many companies out there that have innovated more than AMD has, especially in the last decade, and look where that got them. Anywho, my money is on something happening in that space from Apple, AMD, AMD/ATI before the end of March. As always, I could be wrong!

[perkam]

True, but then again, I doubt there are many companies out there that have innovated more than AMD has, especially in the last decade, and look where that got them. Anywho, my money is on something happening in that space from Apple, AMD, AMD/ATI before the end of March. As always, I could be wrong!

Apple/ATI = makes sense.
Apple/AMD = Wishful thinking.

@ Phenoms, I'm really hoping 4Ghz Air 24/7 is easy on the Ph II 500s.

Perkam

[flippin_waffles]

Well i'm just going by a few announcements that have surfaced today about an announcement near the end of March by Apple, and one post in particular I found today, posted about a week ago.

Intel vs. Nvidia license war will only yield one victor - expect Apple to switch to Nvidia+AMD and AMD-only solutions. Birdie told us

[v_rr]

I think you get everything mixed up in the blindness dedication.

Look who is talking about blindness dedication

Intel is shifting Atom to TSMC. End of story.
Each company have their reasons and those reasons don't need to be equal. One thing is for sure, they do it because they did the Math.

[Donnie27]

Intel and Apple are sure-shot long term partners due to Intel's stable supply of chips and Intel's products being more powerful and more efficient then AMD's current offerings, albiet at a higher cost.

However, all AMD needs to do is to do a better job of innovating to catch Apple's attention. Hell need not be frozen over for Apple to use an AMD chip. That, and the fact that Apple doesn't give a hoot how much it charges its customers, they'll still wait in lines to get it, is also another factor Intel and Apple are meant to be together.

Perkam

You might be right but I remember when folks were saying Apple would never use Intel. When the first announcement was made, the headline was Hell Freezes over. Same thing happened when Dell went AMD. I remember folks on this forum saying AMD had a better chance to be the next Apple processor than Intel. I believe anything is possible if the deal is right.

[Donnie27]

Look who is talking about blindness dedication

Intel is shifting Atom to TSMC. End of story.
Each company have their reasons and those reasons don't need to be equal. One thing is for sure, they do it because they did the Math.

Yes, the story about TSMC and Intel with Atom is on the other thread.