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New 45nm chips from AMD

Posted on July 30, 2009
Tagged with 45nm, AMD, apps, high-perf

New 45nm chips from AMD (which builds all its 64-bit microprocessors on SOI):
• Athlon™ II X2 250 processor for mainstream consumers and the Phenom™ II X2 550 Black Edition processor, the first ever dual-core AMD Phenom II CPU.
• the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor family, to address rising demand for increased performance balanced by greater power-efficiency for cloud computing and web serving environments.

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