AMD FM1 CPU details leak

Posted on Tuesday, November 01 2011 @ 21:59 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
VR Zone spotted new details about AMD's FM1 processors, you can read it over here.
We can't be far from AMD's updated Llano APU's, as all of the major motherboard manufacturers have issued BIOS/UEFI updates for their socket FM1 motherboards for at least some of the expected models. However, what we've also found are several new models that we weren't aware of that will carry the Athlon II and Sempron branding.

Starting at the bottom of the list, we have the dual core Sempron X2 198 which is a 2.5GHz processors, in other words, there's no graphics to be found here. It still fits the FM1 socket, has a total of 1MB of L2 cache and a 65W TDP. This should be one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest socket FM1 processor out there. Moving up a step we have the dual core Athlon X2 221 which moves the clock speed up to 2.8GHz, but with the limited information we have at hand, this is the only difference between the two..


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