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Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly showing off its six-core desktop microprocessor code-named Thuban at the CeBIT trade-show in Hannover, Germany. Unfortunately, AMD still has to reveal specifications of the new chip and announce its pricing.

According to Golem.de web-site, AMD is showing off its next-generation high-performance Leo platform powered by the company’s six-core AMD Phenom II X6 “Thuban” chip, AMD 8-series core-logic sets and ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards. The Sunnyvale, California-based maker of microprocessors did not reveal clock-speed of the chip, but it is rumoured that the highest possible frequency of AMD’s six-core chip will be 2.80GHz. By contrast, AMD’s most advanced quad-core desktop chip – Phenom II 965 – is clocked at 3.40GHz.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis... rocessor.html

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