THE ADRENALINE Vault, a well-known web site got itself in hot water over internal document it obtained. As we wrote
here, the document specified the prices and estimated release dates of two upcoming products that AMD will use to try and take attention away from upcoming release of Intel's i975X chipset and its 65 nano baby codenamed Presler.
It is obvious that AMD or one of its minions applied severe pressure in order to make the story dissapear from the face of the earth. However, Internet isn't limited to one site only, so pressuring one site lead to a plethorea of stories elsewhere.
So, since AMD decided to pressure one site into not publishing news which even weren't very detailed, here is more info than was originally published at our colleagues' yard.
The products in question are AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and Athlon 64 FX-60. AMD isn't going from 57 to 59, but rather from 57 to 60, then to 65 and so on, to catch up with the Opteron numbering scheme and prepare for M2.
The clock speed wasn't specified in the leaked document, but our sources claim you can expect 2.6GHz for the 5000+, and here are the details of the last CPU to debut on Socket 939 platform: The FX-60 will run at 3.0 GHz and mark the end of single-core for FX CPUs.
The prices of the products were over a 1K dollars per piece. Very "nice price" for zero upgradeable platform.
And did we say that AMD will introduce 940-pin Socket M2 with DDR-II 667 memory at CeBIT? Of course, expect a whole hell breaking loose over same naming conventions. Two 5000+ CPUs, two 4800+, two single core 4000+, two 3800+ and two 3500+ will be on the menu. Pure SKU frenzy and distributors/consumers scratching their heads. Socket M2 CPUs are currently being codenamed Windsor dual core and Orleans single-core. FX-60 will replay the role of FX-53, which was available in both Socket 940 and Socket 939 flavours.
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