AMD’s New Offers: Phenom II X6 1075T, Phenom II X4 970, and Phenom II X2 560
 

The Phenom II family is currently in dire straits really. The lack of a new competitive microarchitecture on AMD’s hands makes the Phenom II processors inferior to Intel’s modern products if you compare models with the same clock rate and number of cores. The only way for AMD to survive on the CPU market is to exploit the price factor and the company has been using it most flexibly by bringing new CPU models into those market niches which are not occupied by Intel's product range. We've got another illustration today: AMD has released new, somewhat faster modifications of its dual- and quad-core CPUs and extended its six-core series to attract more users with a carefully thought-out combination of consumer properties and price.

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