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Just hours ago AMD announced the availability of three new AMD Phenom X3 triple-core processors that feature the latest B3 stepping. AMD first announced triple-core processors back in September 2007, but only just recently launched the AMD Phenom X3 8000 series last month. AMD has finally brought the 'B3' stepping to the triple-cores and has announced three new AMD Phenom X3 triple-core processors that make up the new '50-series'.

AMD has been talking a triple-core game for months, but the performance results weren't available until last week, when the chipmaker took the wraps off its Phenom X3 "Toliman" CPUs. Ars reviews AMD's triple-core; is it a threat to Intel?Read More...

AMD reinforced its product line today with a new triple-core processor, the AMD Phenom X3 (codenamed Toliman). The new chip aims to compete more effectively with Intel's Core 2 Duo products, and substitutes a third core for higher clock speeds.Read More...

AMD is introducing three new quad-core Phenom processors today: a 2.6GHz 9950 Black Edition, a 2.0GHz 9350e and a 1.8GHz 9150e. AMD has also dropped its prices, making the Phenom competitive with mainstream Intel CPUs while also obsoleting two of the CPUs it just introduced today. We also finally discovered the source of some strange behavior with our...

AMD's Phenom processors have been limping along ever since the company launched its quad-core design in November, 2007. Now, with the launch of its B3 silicon, AMD is hoping to entice users by offering a kinder, gentler, Phenom—with a 200MHz kick-in-the-pants.Read More...

Last last year Phenom brought AMD a terrible end to a terrible year. While AMD continues to try to resurrect itself we find ourselves in the midst of a second Phenom launch. With better chips, better clock speeds and better pricing see how AMD went from a complete dud to actually competitive with the Phenom X4 9850. It looks like we may just get competition in the CPU industry once again.

Rumor has it that AMD's new South Bridge will allow Phenom processors to clock higher. Believe it or not, it works. We try and figure out why, and by how much....

Intel has announced the brand for its high-end line of Nehalem processors. Meet the Intel Core i7—quad-core CPUs, HyperThreading capability, and all in a nifty green and white can. Read More...

When it comes to performance the Intel Skulltrail platform is hands down the fastest platform that we have ever looked at. With the dual 3.2GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9775 quad-core processors in the system it consistently outperformed the other test systems in multi-threaded tests that could take advantage of the eight cores. The only two areas that the Skulltrail platform didn't shine was in memory bandwidth and gaming. The DDR2-800 FB-DIMMs just don't provide the memory bandwidth needed to compete with DDR3 memory kits and it shows where memory bandwidth does come into play.