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Quoting Kyle from the front page:
Had an interesting conversation with AMD yesterday about the upcoming Phenom Triple Core processors and their heritage and I wanted to pass this along to you.
Had an interesting conversation with AMD yesterday about the upcoming Phenom Triple Core processors and their heritage and I wanted to pass this along to you.
My first thought when I heard that AMD was going to be marketing Triple Core was, “Damn, do they have that many Agena parts that have a broken core on them?” Then I of course we thought about AMD shutting down one working core on a new Phenom part and they create a totally new “low end” market for themselves, and with AMD selling into system builders like Dell, AMD does need a deep set of SKUs in order to differentiate their desktop products while not totally destroying their Quad Core market segment. So the more I think about the more sense Phenom Triple Core makes. Honestly, my initial kneejerk reaction was much less favorable, but I think that could have been very wrong.