The announcement periods of the six-core AMD processor socket AM3 under the designation code thuban was not concretely mentioned . First we learned, that their announcement will come in the third quarter of the following year . We also know that the clock frequency of the first models thuban will be equal to 2.8 GHz - for the six-core 45 nm processor this sufficiently high value.
Yesterday Associate with the reference to motherboard producers reported that the platform leo, which will include the six-core processors thuban, will be presented during May following year. Company to these processors will compose chipset AMD 890FX or 890GX with the south bridge SB850, and also video card radeon HD 5xxx.
Associate also reported that the mass deliveries of video card radeon HD 5xxx and Radeon of 4xxx hardly will be updated earlier than the first quarter 2010. The mobile graphical solutions mobility radeon HD 5xxx (Manhattan) also were detained to the first quarter relative to original plans - AMD expected to present these video chips in the current block.