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Thuban Details Surface
February 1st, 2010 No Comments 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. More »
