IT SEEMS THAT the era of the Athlon 64 X2 will end with a product with numbered 6400+.
The company is obviously battling out leakage issues with K10 processors, as Charlie reports.
So it makes perfect sense to tweak up the existing line-up as high as possible.
A guinea-pig processor to try to sort out the problems is sampling right now to various partners, preparing for a launch designed ot coincide with the end of the summer holidays.
The highest-numbered model you can buy today is the 6000+. The 200MHz clock bump will yield a 400 PR mark increase, in line with AMD's policy of, um, exaggerated calibration. more....
