A quick look at AMD’s website reveals new dual-core mainstream processors in order to regain at least some of its competitiveness in the segment of higher-end mainstream processors. The new 5400+ and 5600+ bring an increase of clock speed and are squarely aimed at Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6600 and E6700 processors.

The new processors 5400+ and 5600+ use socket AM2 and increase the clock speed from 2.6 GHz of the 5000+/5200+ to 2.8 GHz. As previously, AMD uses different cache sizes for different performance ratings of its processors: The 5400+ has 512 k L2 cache, the 5600+ 1 MB.

As an added note, you can also find renamed chipsets with spanky new logos and a list of motherboards currently using the 580x and 480x CrossFire chipsets.
Links: AMD Processor list and CrossFire Solution

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