Speedy Quad-core, Six-core Phenom II processors from AMD stable

Here's couple of announcements from the AMD stable in the CES, on the 4 Jan. AMD announced a 4 core and 6 core Phenom II processors. They also announced Fusion processors that are addressed to the market powered by Intel's Atom processor.


The Phenom II announcements adds two members. One is the 3.6GHz Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition. This possibly is the fastest quad core of the AMD processors up to now. the second member is the 2.9GHz Phenom II X6 1065T processors. This one balances performance with relatively low TDP which is is a low 95 W. It also has AMD's own Turbo CORE technology. I am making a guess here, but that must be the over clocking mechanism used by the AMD for crucial applications and compute intensive parts of an application.


The fusion processors are a combined processor that puts AMD classic core with ATI GPU logic and gets a high performance GPU. It also has built in Direct X 11 support. Was a long time coming, since the acquisition of ATL by AMD  4 years back. This can offer more than 10 hour battery life and high performance graphics that can change things with netbooks. This territory has been the monopoly of the Intel Atom so long.




AMD announces speedy new quad-core, six-core Phenom II processors

AMD announces first Fusion chips: 10+ hour battery life with DirectX11 graphics