More Athlons on the horizon
By Paul Taylor: Thursday, 28 August 2008
WELL, IT SEEMS ATHLON will get a refresh of sorts. According to some info posted on Xbit Labs yesterday evening, AMD partners have said that there’s an upcoming K10-based Athlon X2 just around the corner, the X2 6500. This is a dual-core 2.3GHz @65nm part with 2x512KB of L2 cache, 2MB L3 cache, an integrated DDR2 memory controller and a 95W TDP – sounds a bit familiar doesn’t it? The article further states that the multiplier will be unlocked. However, unlocked multipliers might work best for retail rather than channel, as enthusiasts will pick it up for the overclocking factor. It isn’t low-power, it isn’t 45nm… we can only hope it’s cheap as the proverbial chip. We fired off some enquiries to AMD, but their best (and only) answer was “we can’t comment on rumour and speculation”… for an instant there we thought we were talking to Intel.
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