AMD 65 nanometre chips available

THE WAIT FOR AMD 65 nanometre CPUs is over. At least, this is what on-line stores indicate today.

Although Friday is usually the day when things are placed on catalogues so that on-line shoppers could happily shop during weekend, a certain e-store placed several new products on its site Saturday morning.

This would not be so interesting if those products were not the ones that were the subject of major Intel bashing during IDF ("We've shipped 40 million 65nm CPUs, our competition didn't ship one," bellowed Kicking Pat). But now Socket AM2 just got its long-awaited 65nm answer.

The CPUs are marked Revision F2, and the maximum TDP varies between 65W and 89W - in the real world, 55-62W and 72-81W is expected - depending on the number of cores, of course. The advertised features are Cool'n'Quiet, NX-Flag, SSE3 and Pacifica.

There are also 65nm EEs available, albeit in far lower volumes than their non-economic counter-parts.

We're expecting the first overclocking reports on these CPUs next week, so if you're unsure how much headroom the first generation 65nm has, it won't hurt to wait a bit longer. µ

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