By Mark Long February 9, 2009
Advanced Micro Devices has added five Phenom II processors to its Dragon desktop PC platform, including the industry's first 45nm triple-core chips and three 45nm quad-core processors. AMD's new chips are designed to be dropped into either AM2+ motherboard sockets or new AM3 sockets that are compatible with the latest DDR3 memory chips. Though AM2+ sockets support only DDR2 memory, the new Phenom II processors will work equally well with either DDR2 or DDR3 memory, allowing customers to choose if and when they wish to upgrade their existing machines, according to Leslie Sobon, vice president of product marketing at AMD. "With the combination of the infrastructure compatibility and the introduction of the AMD Phenom II triple-core processors, AMD has made two very strategic design decisions that our competitors cannot duplicate at the component or platform level," Sobon said.
Read more here -->Link
No comments:
Post a Comment