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AMD Releases Image of Phenom/Barcelona Die

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-get-much-dorkier-than-that dept.

MojoKid writes "A few weeks ago, AMD released information on new branding for their desktop derivatives of the Barcelona core, now dubbed the Phenom FX, X4 and X2. If you're unfamiliar with Phenom, the processors will be based on AMD's K10 architecture. They've been tight lipped about specifics, but we know that it will feature a faster on-die memory controller, support 64-bit and 128-bit SSE operations, and they'll be outfitted with 2MB of on-chip L2 cache (512KB dedicated per core) in addition to 2MB of shared L3 cache. This week, instead of revealing some more of the juicy details regarding those enhancements, AMD just sent over a tasty photo of a Phenom die. At least it's something."

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  1. Re:wow a photo by farkus888 · · Score: 5, Funny

    well marketing now tells us the number of cores is the only important factor in performance. this has 4, most desktop pc processors are 2 right now, that makes it exactly twice as fast as current processors.

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  2. Re:wow a photo by luder · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, if I understood correctly, it still has overheating issues, as they're only capable of delivering a photo of a dead processor. Also, on a side note, isn't it funny that there's a website specially dedicated to hot hardware?

  3. WTF? by GreatBunzinni · · Score: 4, Funny

    Photos of processor dies? WTF is this? Some kind of porn for uber-geeks?

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  4. Today's processor marketing explained to geek by DrYak · · Score: 3, Funny

    sed " s/number of GHz/number of cores/ " marketing.txt
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  5. Danger! Danger! by eebra82 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that AMD released high-res pictures of this core, Epson can use their transistor printers we have read about and start selling this CPU ahead of AMD. Good job, AMD!

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  6. Re:Direct links to JPEGs by instanto · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am thinking Sim City when I see this

    http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Digit alMedia/43263A_hi_res.jpg

    Looks like the industry areas are quite big, wonder how the pollution in that city is.

    No fires though, so that is a good thing.

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