14 DAY TRIAL // It seems like AMD’s Phenom brand is not yet ready to pass into oblivion, as it now seems like the chip maker is preparing a new series of eight-core CPUs that will use this moniker.
The chips have popped up in the support list of some Jetway and ECS motherboards , and according to Xbit Labs these will be based on the Bulldozer architecture.
Four models are mentioned in the documents provided by the two mobo makers, three featuring a 95W TDP while the fourth fits inside a 125W thermal envelope.
Clock speeds vary between 2.4GHz and 3.0GHz, but there’s no mention of Turbo Core or other AMD technologies that will be supported by these CPUs.
Keeping the Phenom around is definitely good news for all the nostalgics out there, but what I would like to see now from AMD is some kind of performance boost that will make Bulldozer a contender to Intel’s Core i7 CPUs.