Phenom II info leaks out, AMD hints at something

[Jazzman]

Special THANKS to flippin waffles for this news SOURCE.

AMD decided to postpone 45nm desktop chip (Deneb, e.g. Phenom II) for hard launch on January 8, 2009 - first day of CES 2009. This way, complete 45nm production in 2008 will be branded as Opterons and target higher ASPs.
But don’t think for a second that AMD decided to drop the towel on desktop market: Deneb and Deneb FX are turning to be something really special. Unlike current batch of 65nm processors, Phenom II will come to market with 50% overclocking headroom, if you obey the essential rules of overclocking. In fact, Phenom II will probably be the most overclockable processor AMD released to market in the past eight years.

According to our sources, AMD worked with some selected enthusiasts to enable LN2 cooling as well and the CPUs should not suffer from “cold bug”. Does this means we’ll start seeing 5GHz+ clocks on AMD processors as well?

For now, all that we can do is wait and see can AMD get back in the game or not. Judging by our sources, ATI guys are making great changes inside the company and changing the product line-up in ways that old AMD would never think of.