Thuban Details Surface

February 1st, 2010 Posted in CPUs

It seems that AMD's upcoming six core desktop processor series, codenamed Thuban, will make it’s first appearance in the market somewhere in Q2 2010, probably in May. The Thuban core is an implementation of the Istanbul core, in a socket AM3 package, supporting dual channel DDR3 memory. The series will be probably branded as Phenom II X6. Built on GlobalFoundaries' 45 nm node, Thuban is a multi core design cpu with six cores, each with 128 KB of L1, 512 KB of L2 cache, and a 6 MB L3 cache shared between the six cores. The new processor will take advantage of HyperTransport 3.x interface, with a HT speed of 2400 MHz . Existing AM3 motherboards based on 7XX series chipsets may support Phenom II X6 with a BIOS update.