AMD is finally getting ready to launch some competitive dual-cores that can give Intel's Core 2 Duo generation something to fight against.

The 45nm K10.5 Regor architecture will help AMD to drop TDP to 65W. This CPU also brings DDR 1333 support to AMD's new dual-core generation and it comes in socket AM3, but it should work just fine in socket AM2+ with DDR2 memory.

The CPU has 2MB of total cache memory and it should ship in very early Q3 2009, at least if AMD manages to stick to its schedule. We suspect clocks in excess of 3GHz, but at this point AMD doesn’t want to reveal its highest 45nm dual-core clock. If it wants to fight Intel it will have to go much higher than 3GHz.