AMD extends their Athlon II processor family today with the announcement of several new dual-core, triple-core, and quad-core product offerings. The new processors are designed to offer “outstanding performance” with low power consumption at low-price points – thereby enabling system builders to create power and cost-efficient systems optimized for Windows 7. The new processors with their 1ku price points are as follows:

• Athlon II X4 605e clocked at 2.3GHz with TDP of 45 W and 1ku price of $143
• Athlon II X4 600e clocked at 2.2GHz with TDP of 45 W and 1ku price of $133
• Athlon II X3 435 clocked at 2.9GHz with TDP of 95 W and 1ku price of $87
• Athlon II X3 425 clocked at 2.7GHz with TDP of 95 W and 1ku price of $76
• Athlon II X3 405e clocked at 2.3GHz with TDP of 45 W and 1ku price of $102
• Athlon II X3 400e clocked at 2.2GHz with TDP of 45 W and 1ku price of $97
• Athlon II X2 240e clocked at 2.8GHz with TDP of 45 W and 1ku price of $77
• Athlon II X2 235e clocked at 2.7GHz with TDP of 45 W and 1ku price of $69

Expect many more multi-core thin-and-light notebooks/desktop systems with low-price points and higher performance. Great time to be a consumer I tell ya!

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System builders looking to create cheap (and decently powerful) computers will be happy to hear that AMD has launched the world’s first quad-core processor for under $100 dollars in the form of the AMD Athlon II X4.

The new 2.6 GHz Athlon II X4 620 is priced at $99 dollars for system builders – although pricing might vary by region. AMD claims that a bundle containing the Athlon II X4 620 and the MSI 785GTM motherboard (which uses the latest AMD 785G chipset) should cost around $170 dollars – a steal for anyone looking to put together a quad core system.

Spec wise, the Athlon II X4 620 is clocked at 2.6GHz, built on a 45nm SOI process, comes with 2MB of L2 cache, and has a TDP of 95W. There’s also a 630 model which is clocked at 2.8GHz with otherwise identical specs.

This along with the recent introduction of the Intel Core i5 processors means its a very good time to be a computer enthusiast.. or heck.. a good time in general to be a consumer looking to get a new computer.

[Check it out via PC Magazine]

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Not quite ready to go quad-core yet?

Well, AMD has two new dual core processors for you to consider – the 45nm AMD Athlon II X2 250 processor which brings the 45nm processor to the Athlon processor lineup and the new AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition processor – the first dual core AMD Phenon II processor. The Phenom II lineup is now available in dual, triple, and quad-core variants.

AMD claims that the new Athlon II X2 250 processor has a TDP of 65 watts with power consumption cut by up to 50 percent when doing basic tasks or at idle, and up to 40 percent on heavy workloads.

You can read more about this over at AMD’s website here.

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