Review: PC Perspective
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To say that there was an elevated level of excitement throughout the past year about the AMD Phenom is an understatement. Users all over the world scrabbled for information on what was to be AMD’s latest and greatest foray into the processor world. Unfortunately the reality did not quite live up to the hype.
AMD was expecting to launch the initial Phenoms at a maximum clockspeed of 3 GHz. AMD had done a lot of internal changes to the base design to hopefully get the product to where it needed to go. Each core was internally optimized to increase both IPC and overall clockspeed on AMD’s 65 nm SOI process. AMD also has been working diligently to improve the quality of their 65 nm process so it could hopefully handle this large and complex quad core part.
Dec 28, 2007, 07:07 AM
