The three new CPUs are the Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition, the eight-core X6 1065T processor, as well as the entry-level quad-core Phenom II X4 840. AMD says the Phenom X6 1065T is its fastest sub-100 ...

"There is no bottom for Phenom II that we've been able to find yet," said Simon Solotko, a senior manager in Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD's desktop division, explaining that overclockers using exotic ...

On the plus side, the newest version of AMD’s Phenom II processor won’t cost you a penny extra over what you’d currently pay for the company’s top-of-the-line CPU, the $245, 3.2-GHz Phenom II X4 955 ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

With today's launch of its new Phenom II desktop chips, AMD also announced its new Dragon platform. Dragon marries Phenom II with the Radeon HD 4800-line of 3D cards and AMD's 790-series chipsets into ...