AMD begins phase-out of X2 series processors

Posted on | December 31, 2007 | No Comments

The Athlon X2, which for some time was king of dual core until Intel released their Conroe processors, is being phased-out. AMD is now focusing on the recently released Phenoms and the new Athlon 6000 architecture, they will no longer manufacture or take orders for the X2 series processors.

I guess it will be a good time for me on getting one of these babies for my EE (energy efficient) PC project and I do hope that AMD will have a price drop on their Athlon X2 line since they’re starting to phase it out on the market.

AMD will stop taking orders for Athlon 64 X2 6400+ black edition and 89W version Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processors in the first quarter of 2008. Last orders for 125W Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and Athlon 64 X2 5600+ processors will be at the end of the first quarter, the sources detailed.

AMD will also stop taking orders for Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 4000+ processors by the end of this year and will launch a 65W Athlon 64 X2 4600+ clocked at 2.3GHz and with 1MB L2 cache in second quarter of 2008.

AMD will launch a new series of dual-core products based on its next-generation architecture, Athlon 6000, in the later half of second quarter next year. First to launch will be the Athlon 6250 and 6050, the sources revealed. Although the core frequencies of the two CPUs have not been set yet, they will adopt 1MB L2 cache and 2MB shared L3 cache, the sources added.

Source: Digitimes