Nice "bit" of info!
Would like to see some power consumption numbers and perhaps even some undervolting.
I have been holding off a htpc purchase because they don't go low enough for me yet

Nice article, but your explanation of the 2 MB L2 with AMDs "modular structur" looks like BS to me, sorry.

They just made it bigger, like with the Turion Ultras @65nm. You do not need the "modular structur" argument for that little achievment. Cache sizes are changed quite often, just look at Intel's CPUs.


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i cant wait on the full review ! man i love this site

Looks like I've found my next CPU purchase

In the near future, Intel will have Core i5 and Core 2 in the mid range. Therefore it looks like they will phase out the pentium dual core series.
This gives an interesting picture. The Ahtlon II and Phenom II have shown, that they can compete with the Core2 with a narrower clock speed gap (100 MHz to 200Mhz) as compared to earlier Athlons (600MHz to 800Mz) and Phenoms (400MHz).
This means that when the i5 is launched, AMD will again have no competition in the upper and mid range, just like now.
I'm a big fan of AMD especially after using an Intel rig, and love their steady approach, but their CPU business does need a boost- they need upper range CPUs and also new mobile CPUs.
How things will pan out may be interesting, but AMD needs to speed up its CPU designing.

Sorry if my last post was a little sloppy. Yes, I do agree with your original post and did when I posted mine. What I said was plausible was the article I linked.

The roadmaps from mar09 say that orochi and 32nm won't be out until 2011. Yet, we are now hearing of 32nm and 28nm from GloFo in 2010. Maybe, just maybe, this whole spin-off thing was a good idea.