AMD said to be revising naming scheme for 45nm Phenom CPUs

Get out your processor score sheets, folks (both of you), 'cause it looks like your world is about to get shook up again. According to some unnamed "industry sources," AMD is going to be welcoming its new 45nm Phenom processors by slightly revising its conventional naming scheme, although it's not going quite so far as to ditch the main Phenom X3 and Phenom X4 branding all together. Instead, it's supposedly going to be switching the model numbers from four to five digits, with the lower-end processors following a 1xx00 format and the higher-end CPUs using a 20xx0 scheme. That, of course, is being done in the name of "simplifying" things, although we'll let you be the judge if that's the first word that pops in your mind or not when you take a glance at the table available at the read link below.

[erwin @ Sep 26th 2008 5:55AM]

ah...you mean Phenom, right? :)

[DarkLight @ Sep 26th 2008 5:58AM]

They will correct it and your comment will be meaningless...

So, for longevity's sake: The original title said "Phenon"

[Patriks7 @ Sep 26th 2008 6:04AM]

It still does ...

[Jon @ Sep 26th 2008 3:27PM]

the URL itself will remain "Phenon".

[James @ Sep 26th 2008 6:01AM]

To be honest "Simplying" was not the first word that popped into my mind...

[tekdroid @ Sep 26th 2008 6:43AM]

Sempr0nfying is what AMD like to call it.

[allislost @ Sep 26th 2008 6:01AM]

off topic...

Did anyone else have trouble accessing this site? i couldn't get into it for about half an hour.

[Tom Robertson @ Sep 26th 2008 6:46AM]

No.

[Chris @ Sep 26th 2008 7:19AM]

Apple ran a story about Engadget being down.

[tom @ Sep 26th 2008 8:18AM]

Elsewhere, somebody was saing Steve Jobs is dead.

[Shawn @ Sep 26th 2008 1:19PM]

Engadget wasn't really down. Comments containing the word "iPhone" just dropped below a billion posts per minute. Apple noticed the huge vacuum in publicity they generated and made it up.

[Jash Sayani @ Sep 26th 2008 6:18AM]

How about Xenon.. ?

[Reader @ Sep 26th 2008 6:45AM]

This article is full of grammatical win.

[Tom Robertson @ Sep 26th 2008 6:46AM]

Doesn't roll off the tongue, but I just hope that they can turn things around and make a decent contender.

[Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Sep 26th 2008 7:02AM]

They should be revising CPU cache sizes. 512K/1M is nothing.

[Tom Robertson @ Sep 26th 2008 7:23AM]

They are already if you read the link to Tom's Hardware.

[Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Sep 26th 2008 7:44AM]

@Tom: Thanks for making me RTFA!!!!

This are *TWO* good news at once: (1) DDR3 already in Q1-2009 and (2) 2MB of cache per core!

F*** the naming - it is what under the hood is important. I think somebody missed the main news, because this is first time I see AMD road map where it is all (DDR3 and cache) written with concrete dates.

[blizz419 @ Sep 26th 2008 8:05AM]

i agree Ihar, why Engadget would focus solely on names is pretty ridiculous the real news is in cache increase and DDR3 memory controllers, wheres your brain this morning Donald you need more coffee

[blizz419 @ Sep 26th 2008 7:06AM]

any chance of these releasing with DDR3 memory controllers?

[blizz419 @ Sep 26th 2008 7:13AM]

guess i shoulda hit the read link before commenting, finally woohoo DDR3 here i come in the near future lol.

[TheAssailant6661 @ Sep 26th 2008 4:45PM]

At least they're not glueing 2 Centrinos together and calling it dual-core.....

[eiki @ Sep 26th 2008 8:27AM]

should have gone the new nvidia naming route and named the top model the PX280, with the top three core chip being the PX180 or similar, there, better naming scheme!

[Bufsabre @ Sep 26th 2008 9:06AM]

honestly, of all the big things announced in this article, the possibility of am3 not being backward compatible as promised, the much larger cache size, the fact we have a release time frame ((probibly ganna be pushed back but its nice to have a time frame none the less)). but you chose to focus on the name? shame, engadget used to focus on the real focus of the article, not the superficial things

[Virginia Wolf @ Sep 26th 2008 9:20AM]

I have to say that as of now mainstream guy has difficulty telling difference between AMDs chips.

Intel's are easy, they are numbered, the higher the better.

[Bufsabre @ Sep 26th 2008 10:14AM]

umm... this article is about numbers and it still is the higher the better, im sure even a triple core ((which are also hight clocked)) with ddr3 1333 ram is better than my 9950 with ddr2 1066

[edzy @ Sep 26th 2008 9:35AM]

"No Stinkoman 20X6 model? Are they looking for a ChalleeeennngggEEE?!!!......"

[Wwhat @ Sep 27th 2008 9:57AM]

Must be hard for the marketing people, people WILL respond to names and numbers and it's hard to keep people paying the right kind of attention.

On a related note, I like how everything now has to have the letters HD in it to be competitive, shows you how silly people really get. But why didn't the food manufacturers pick up on that yet? "Pepsi-HD, the high resolution taste of low calories"