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Submission + - Phenom II available to distributors this week (fudzilla.com)

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on Saturday December 27, 2008 @12:13PM

jdb2 writes: "Fudzilla reports that AMD's Phenom II is already available to distributors, and will be available to sell to consumers in the week of the 29th of December. The Phenom II is AMD's consumer version of its 'Shanghai' 45 nanometer SOI process Quad-core Opteron chip and will reportedly ship in 3 and 2.8 gigahertz flavors corresponding to the model numbers '940' and '920' respectively. This first release will be packaged as a Socket AM2+ part which only supports DDR2 memory. The following month AMD is reportedly going to release a new '9x5' series of Socket AM3 versions which support DDR3 memory. — these will be backward compatible with Socket AM2+ .

This may be an inflection point for AMD if the Shanghai architecture lives up to the performance numbers from preliminary reports and if so it will no doubt also be a welcome belated Christmas present for the already salivating hordes of Tech Junkies."

Submission + - Nvidia rumored to be readying x86 chip release (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by jdb2 on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @02:37PM

jdb2 writes: Rumor has it that Nvidia is preparing to release an x86 microprocessor with its guns targeted directly at its two major rivals : Intel and AMD/ATI .

According to the Inquirer : "THE HOT RUMOR going around IDF ... [is] that the company will do an x86 part. The background whispers say that the part will be announced next week at Nvision ... Nvidia's men in white coats certainly have the brainpower to do it, but they also most certainly don't have a license to sell such a part. NV is basically locked out unless Intel and AMD both decide to be magnanimous, and we would not recommend holding your breath waiting for this to happen ... That leaves the lawsuit option open ... Any attempt to enter the market without a license would bring down Intel legal on them like flying monkeys blackening the sky. It would get ugly. Really ugly. Expensive too."

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