New AMD Black Editions: 9950 Goes 125W , new Dual and Tri core Black Editions!!!

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Written by Chris Tom
Monday, 25 August 2008 20:35
AMD has announced three new black editions. They include a new Phenom X4 9950 that is 125W instead of 140W. They also will include new triple and dual core black editions.

* AMD Phenom™ X4 9950 Black Edition processors will transition to 125W (same TDP as 9850 Black Edition). This is our highest performance quad core and when paired with the AMD 790GX Chipset, has been getting rave reviews for its over-clocking capabilities!
* AMD will introduce the AMD Phenom X3 8750 Black Edition processor – the first ever unlocked triple core processor!
* AMD will also introduce the new AMD Athlon™ X2 6500 Black Edition (product details & positioning available on September 1, with price announcement). The highest performance dual core we have ever offered – at a great price and it is also unlocked!

Dually BE is K10 based.Triple core BE is obviously K10 also.
Great news,and all this just before Deneb strikes! We know AMD will use immersion and DFM,which will improve the yield and lower the cost of production.Intel uses DFM as of C2D design(maybe even before that,someone correct me if i'm wrong). DFM will improve the yield on the 45nm node and with CTI and other process improvements which will show up with further 45nm Revisions they are on the road of a much better process node which will let them make a 12 core MCM(revD,so called Hydra cores -6 core native part is one of them).