AMD Brings Out New Athlon II CPUs

After presenting six new central processing units not so long ago, Advanced Micro Devices appears to have once again supplied the market with new CPUs, this time aimed at the low-power market, the chips being four new Athlon II units.

Eager to keep expanding its product lineup to all segments of the market, Advanced Micro Devices has been diligently working on not just CPUs and GPUs, but also APUs.

This once, however, AMD is causing ripples on the market not through some new announcement on the Fusion architecture, but by unleashing four new low-power Athlon II chips, according to reports.

In the case of the so-called 'e' series, the Sunnyvale, California-based outfit supplied some chips that are the more affordable of the newcomers, albeit less power efficient.

The Athlon II X4 615e, for instance, is a quad-core CPU with a clock speed of 2.5 GHz and has a price point of roughly 130 Euro.

The situation is more or less similar with the Athlon II X3 420e triple-core, which runs at 2.6 GHz and, depending on where it sells, is priced at around 100 Euro.

The Athlon II X2 250e dual-core is, as one would expect, the cheapest of these three, at only 75 Euro, while still reaching a speed of 3 GHz and featuring 2 MB of L2 cache.

The fourth and final product that the report mentioned is the Athlon II X2 270u which supposedly stands out more than the rest even though it has a frequency of just 2 GHz.

Basically, this part has a very low thermal design power (TDP), of 25 W to be exact, which is less than what many laptop-aimed CPUs consume.

By comparison, all of the “e” series models have a TDP of a full 45W, their prices supposedly aimed to make up for it.

Unfortunately, the report does not exactly disclose any sort of information on the price of the Athlon II X2 270u, though this mystery should not endure for long.