AMD Claims Quad-core Desktop CPUs Primed for Xmas
AMD details it’s desktop plans for the next year, tho’ be it a quartern ulterior than earlier plotted
AMD this week took the covers off its quad-core desktop CPU codenamed Agena FX in Sunnyvale, California. The cpu was featured in divorced and dual-socket configurations — the dual-socket configurations mark AMD’s eldest presentment of an 8-core desktop.
Next week Monday, AMD will divulge the stigmatize name for this Agena FX-based firebrand, Phenom FX. The authorized establish date for Agena is tranquilize indeterminate.
“Quad-core, codenamed Barcelona will launching subsequently this summery, in the July, Lordly kind of time framing — followed by [Agena FX] on the desktop,” declared Robert Pore, AMD administrator vice chairwoman and CFO.
AMD incontestible the mightiness of this Phenom FX organisation by encryption a 1080p movie trailer into H.264 in near-realtime. The companionship would not divulge the clock frequencies to DailyTech, tho’ preceding companionship steering indicated Agena FX will unveiling at 2.6 GHz clock frequencies.
Agena FX is just the halo intersection for the desktop AMD K10 lineup. Agena (non-FX) will establish the bulk of AMD’s Phenom offerings. Agena is fundamentally isotropic to Agena FX, tho’ the non-FX mainframe does not reinforcement interchangeable multiprocessing — Agena FX can supporting up to two sockets at this time. AMD will also denote its dual-core Agena bins, codenamed Kuma, curtly afterward Agena.
Intel is slated to establish its 45nm Penryn c.p.u. phratry in late 2007. “Penryn will be transport in 2007,” declared Intel allegoric Nick Knupffer. “We are unveiling server versions of Penryn in the ordinal half of 2007,” he supplementary.
Intel’s desktop variants of Penryn, dubbed dual-core Wolfdale and quad-core Yorkfield, surfaced last month. The server counterparts to these chips, dubbed dual-core Hapertown and quad-core Yorkfield will suceed the existent Clovertown and Woodcrest Xeon components.
AMD’s Pore makes one foretell, we’ll see quad-core desktop components in 2007. “That’ll plunge a insignificant afterwards the server part, it’ll be called Agena. You’ll see that in the Christmastime line-up,” Pore claimed.
