The release of athlon II X2 250 processor allowed us to ascertain that AMD do not use for the production of all its processors socket AM3 identical four core crystals. For the dual core processors regor was created , new crystal with 2 X 1 mb cache in the second level, which has the area 117,5 sq. mm against 258 sq. mm in the four core processors phenom II X4.
It is possible to calculate that also for the four core processors athlon II X4 (Propus) without cache in the third level will be prepared a new crystal. According to associate, propus processors will have a crystal area of approximately 168 sq. mm and they will appear in the third quarter present year. Here is the propus processors core :
Each of four core has 512 KB cache in the second level, as in case of Phenom II X4 on deneb core.
If we compare the core areas of deneb, Propus and Regor processors , then it is possible to reveal savings of about 35% upon transfer from Deneb to Propus, and in the case with passage from Deneb to Regor it is more than two-fold. The four core crystals propus will serve also for the production of three core processors athlon II X3 (Rana). Related Products :
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