It looks like AMD is also working on a new version of Tri-core and the company plans to run some interesting marketing for these parts. Tri-core will probably be very close to performance to any quad- core, especially in everyday applications and AMD wants to benefit that fact.
The new K10.5 is 45nm and it is codenamed Heka. It is AM2+ and AM3 compatible and we are expecting two different versions. The AM3 version supports DDR3, while the AM2 part supports DDR2 memory.
The new Tri-core chip will have 6MB of L3 cache and there will be a version without L3 cache, probably significantly cheaper.
This makes sure that K10-based Toliman is not just a one-time thing and that AMD plans to continue it in 2009.
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AMD?s 45nm K10.5 scheduled for 1H 2009
A year from now