AMD Phenom II Microprocessor Set To Launch At CES

AMD is really rolling out the processors these days and are set to launch their Phenom II at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas in January 2009. The Phenom II X4 will be a part of the Dragon platform and is also known as the Deneb core. This will be the desktop processor version of the Shanghai processor that launched yesterday.

This Dragon platform will replace the Spider platform that launched in 2007. The Phenom II X4 will have 8MB of cache and connect to DDR-2 or DDR-3 memory. Apparently, AMD is making a concentrated effort to appeal to the mainstream market, in sharp contrast with the Intel Core i7 "Nehalem" processor, at least in AMD's eyes.

Options for the Dragon platform include quad graphics and more. Even better, the Phenom II with the Dragon Platform will be packaged with the AMD Overdrive CPU control utility. Also included is the Fusion optimization tool.