AMD triple-core Phenom CPUs now shipping

Posted on Thursday, March 13 2008 @ 19:06 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD has begun shipments of triple-core Phenom processors. PC World writes the chip firm is shipping the triple-core chips in volume to PC makers only right now:
Many major vendors, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, have hinted at including the Phenom triple-core processors in desktops.

Dell has listed plans to use the chip in its OptiPlex 740 business desktop systems, with 1.5M bytes of L2 cache and 2M bytes of shared L3 cache, in an online brochure. Dell will ship the triple-core OptiPlex in the second quarter, a company spokeswoman said, declining further comment.

Hewlett-Packard has also listed a desktop on its Bulgarian-language Web site with AMD's Phenom Triple-Core 8600B processor that runs at 2.3 GHz, with 1.5M bytes of L2 cache. HP officials were not available for comment.


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