AMD Confirms Six-core Processor for 2010, AM3 Compatible

Category: CPU's
Posted: September 22, 2009 12:47PM
Author: jammin

AMD has already introduced six-core CPUs in the server market, and it has now confirmed that it will also be bringing a consumer desktop model to the market in 2010. The release date is likely to be behind that of Intel's own six-core 'Gulftown' CPU and the AMD part, codenamed 'Thuban' will be built on a 45nm process compared to Gulftown's 32nm. The die size is therefore going to be pretty large and will likely pack in around 904 million transistors. It is reported that it will have an expected 3MB of L2 cache and 6MB of L3 cache, though the most important piece of information is that the new CPU will be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards, which makes for an easy upgrade path for existing AMD users. Clock speeds will likely be down from quad-core equivalents (probably due to the extra thermal output) though it is not said by how much.

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