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AMD’s six-core ‘Thuban’ set for Q2 2010?

November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment




By Rik Myslewski, Register Hardware
AMD is reported to have rejiggered its phase-out and phase-in plans for various members of its Phenom II and Athlon II processor lines.

According to a report on Monday by the Taiwanese market-watchers at DigiTimes, “sources at motherboard makers” say that AMD has stopped taking orders for the 2.6GHz Phenom II X4 910 and 3.0GHz 945, and will stop shipping those processors entirely in the second quarter of 2010.

Rounding out the AMD rumor-fest is the purported introduction of a six-core desktop processor codenamed Thuban, said to be scheduled for release in Q2 2010. This 45nm, 2.8GHz part is reported to be set for the company’s Socket AM3, and to have 6MB of L3 cache.

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