14 DAY TRIAL // As seen during the past few weeks, Advanced Micro Devices is preparing an imminent launch for its 45 nanometer Deneb microprocessors. The chip has already been spotted and presents itself as a fantastic part featuring great overclocking capabilities, and AMD seems rather enthusiastic about it. The Sunnyvale company announced that the first chip of the series would be a quad-core, and everybody is waiting for it to be launched.
According to news site Fudzilla, the chip manufacturer plans to extend the 45nm lineup with triple- and dual cores as well. The already announced Heka tri-core will surface right after AMD launches the quad-core AM3 DDR3 and AM2 DDR2 chips. Moreover, it seems that, by mid-2009, we will be able to see 45nm dual-core K10.5 as well, yet no specific time frame for this part has been disclosed, not to mention further details.
On the other hand, there is a dual-core chip certain to surface next year, and this time we're talking about a K8 part which, according to the news site, will aim at the low-cost, low-power market segment, the area where Atom currently reigns. The part, unveiled on AMD's roadmap, will come under the code-name Conesus and, although featuring a higher thermal envelope than Atom, sporting 4W, is said to perform much better.
Conesus will not be a 45nm as previously expected, but a 65nm one, and will be a dual-core chip featuring 1MB L2 cache and DDR2 memory support. In addition, it will also come in a BGA package, making it a nicely fit for ultraportable / mini notebook designs. Besides, AMD says that the chip will feature a 25W TDP, but also includes the chipset here, and that brings Conesus closer to Atom. Yet, we should expect to see the dual-core Atom for notebooks coming to the market next year.