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Old Apr 25, 2009, 10:09 AM   #2
AlCabone
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That explains the high power consumption of the chip. It's a native quad. Seems like AMD designed only two CPUs: Phenom and Phenom II, and they disable parts of them to get a complete market coverage.
I would rather like to see more efficient native dual- and tricores in the future.
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