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AMD company intends to begin the deliveries of first processors barcelona during August in the present year, series products will appear only during September, but here the processor frequency will not exceed 2.0 GHz.
Phenom desktop processors will have modest appearance this year : only in the fourth quarter four models will be released, rest will appear not earlier than the first quarter of 2008. According to associate with the reference to sources from motherboard Taiwan producers , AMD can transfer the announcement of phenom processors to the beginning of 2008.
Here is a slide from June AMD road map:
AMD explains to its partners that the main reason of delay in phenom desktop processor will be in the benefit of barcelone ( to aggressively increase frequencies and volumes ) , So , desktop models will begin to appear in September- October, and the first parties of series processors will appear in November- December. In the present month AMD will renew information about the accessibility periods of phenom processors .
However, Taiwan sources report that AMD desires to modify the technological process to increase the release level of suitable processors and to raise their frequency potential. High frequencies can be required by phenom processors to complete with penryn 45 nm processors , which will be extended in 2007-2008 by intel company . AMD require again more time to achieve this goal . As Taiwan sources assert, company already informed some motherboard producers about its plans with respect to the transfer Of phenom announcement to the first quarter 2008.
We will hope that the possible delay in announcement for phenom processors will help AMD to bring higher consumer qualities .
Edit :AMD representatives , Again confirmed, that the announcement of phenom processors is as before planed for the second-half 2007, and there no changes in the announcement graph . ... Related Products :
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