Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940

news · January 8, 2009

Good Morning All,

Starting

in November of last year, we got a sense that AMD was slowly, but surely,

clawing its way back into the fight. It began with the introduction of the

Spider platform, which consisted of AMD's native quad-core Phenom processors,

7-series chipsets, and 3800-series graphics cards. Individually, the components

that made up the Spider platform weren't performance leaders in their

respective categories, but ultimately the platform proved to be solid, and of

course, it was priced very competitively.

As

many of you know, AMD hasn't been sitting idle since the Spider platform

introduction. The company's chipset division has launched a handful of new

chipsets, featuring one of--if not--the best IGPs on the market and a new

Southbridge. The ATI graphics division has also been firing on all cylinders

lately, having released a top to bottom lineup of GPUs that compete very

favorably at their respective price points. AMD also recaptured the 3D

performance crown from NVIDIA for a time with the Radeon HD 4870 X2. AMD wasn't

going down without a fight.

With

the chipset and graphics divisions on a roll, it was time for the CPU team to

pull the trigger on something new and exciting, to complete the new platform

trifecta. It took some time, but that's exactly what's happening today. The end

result is the Dragon platform which consists of new 45nm Phenom II X4

processors, 7-series chipsets, and ATI Radeon 4000 series graphics cards.

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