AMD to Announce Phenom 2 This Thursday

From DailyTech: With Intel's 45 nm Penryn dominating three and four core Phenom offerings, chipmaker AMD is desperate to do anything it can to cut into Intel's lead. The first major change literally split the company in half, separating its manufacturing branches into a new company.

Now we're on the eve of the second major act from AMD: the launch of the Phenom II lineup codenamed Deneb (4-core) and Heka (3-core). With AMD debuting its new mobile platform this week, it looks to continue to make even more waves by announcing the first of its Phenom II processors this Thursday.

While details of this launch are currently under embargo, DailyTech received verbal confirmation from sources at AMD that the first of the Phenom II processors will be announced Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The new processors represent primarily a die shrink as AMD is finally adopting a 45 nm process a year after Intel released a 45 nm die shrink (Penryn) and a few months after Intel released its new Core i7 architecture.

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