Recent leakages from AMD roadmap allowed us to learn, than in 2010 AMD will release 45 nm six-core desktop processors thuban, which will preserve compatibility with socket AM2+ and Socket AM3. A year later will appear 32 nm processors zambezi with the core quantity more than four and the design concept socket AM3 second revision.
Associates explain, when appear 45 nm six-core processors thuban. It occurs, that their announcement is now planned for the second quarter 2010, but not for the third, as it was assumed earlier. During May 2010 will appear a new platform leo, processor thuban, chipset AMD 890FX and south bridge SB850. This Last will bring the promised SATA-600 support and fourteen ports USB 2.0.
Associate assumes that the announcement of six-core processors phenom II X6 was reported to a block earlier for competition with the six-core processors core i9 (Gulftown), which Intel will present in the second quarter 2010. It is assumed that the processors thuban will obtain 6 X 512 KB cache in the second level and 6 mb cache in the third level. The memory controller will ensure support to two-channel DDR 3-1333, and the power system will allow these processors to work in socket AM2+ and Socket AM3 motherboards .