AMD Set to Unveil AMD Athlon II X2, Phenom II X2 in Early June

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second largest supplier of x86 central processing units, will officially unveil its AMD Athlon II X2 and AMD Phenom II X2 processors on June 2, 2009, according to sources close to the chipmaker. The new chips are expected to improve the company’s positions in the entry level CPU market segment.

The first two chips to be announced are AMD Athlon II X2 250 (Regor, 3000MHz, 1MB per core L2 cache, 65W TDP) and AMD Phenom II X2 550 (Callisto, 3100MHz, 512KB per core L2 cache, 6 MB shared L3 cache, 80W TDP). Both chips will feature AM3 form-factor and will support both DDR2 and DDR3 memory. The microprocessors are based on the latest micro-architecture and are made using 45nm process technology.

Earlier AMD planned to release its code-named AMD Athlon II X4 600-series (Propus), a quad-core processor with dual-channel DDR2/DDR3 memory controller (depending on platform) and 2MB L2 cache (512KB per core), and Athlon II X3 400-series (Rana) triple-core central processing unit with DDR2/DDR3 memory controller (depending on platform) and with 1.5MB L2 cache in April, whereas the dual-core Regor was scheduled for June launch. However, the latest plans of Advanced Micro Devices seen by X-bit labs indicate that the world’s second largest maker of x86 microprocessors will only release Propus and Rana in August-September timeframe, more or less inline with the company’s new mainstream desktop platform code-named Pisces.

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