Advanced Micro Devices is preparing a desktop processor with six processing engines, sources familiar with the company’s plans revealed. The new central processing units (CPUs) will not be available this year, but are likely to boost performance of AMD’s desktop platforms sometime in 2010.
"Thuban", as it is codenamed, will be released in the AM3 socket and will feature a total of 3 MiB of L2 cache and the same 6 MiB of L3 cache as "Istanbul" based hexa-core Opterons. "Istanbul" cores top out at 2.8GHz, not very far from the 3.4GHz of the AMD Phenom II X4 965.
2010 is a bit late, considering AMD has been shipping hexa cores for a while and that they can fit AM3 sockets without a whole new spin. Don't expect it to break ground on the gaming front but this new Phenom II X6 processor may become the chip of choice for high-end workstations and cheap scientific computing clusters.
Update: new details about the new processors here.
Source: Xbitlabs
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