I would like to discuss about the AMD Phenom X4, so posting this thread. I am hoping that some more members would love to inform more here. The Phenom from AMD is the first desktop processor from the home, which relies on the new 45-nm manufacturing. AMD relies as other distinguished representatives of the industry (IBM, UMC, Toshiba, and TI) in cash on the lithography. The so-called "immersion lithography" is still in production, a light source with a wavelength of 193 nm, however, is used between the wafer and the lens now water instead of high-purity air to change the behavior of the refractive index in the positive. AMD is still at the same time to the "Silicon on Insulator process technology (SOI), the K8-time use of place since. This smaller and optimized production comes on the paper so many changes. The small production lot more transistors to fit on small space. Was the the the existing Phenom 285 mm² in size, he's Phenom 258 mm² was reduced when new. But at the same time, the number of transistors rapidly. It Phenom Brought to about 450 million circuits, it is the Phenom II whopping 758 million transistors. Much of this additional circuitry can be attributed to the enlarged from two to six-Mbyte L3 cache, which can also be seen in the pictures from the processor very well, as it covers almost a third of the processor. The individual cores located on the left, always surrounded by other caches, in this case the L2 cache. Between the four cores, and therefore basically across the entire processor, is the memory controller.
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