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AMD is going to pick up the Kuma core. Back in September we have review a ES version Kuma. At that time we think the Kuma will become Athlon 6500+. But no words in AMD’s September roadmap about Kuma, we think AMD have drop it. But when we saw the AMD October roadmap, Kuma appears and branded “Athlon X2 7550/7750”. According to the roadmap, Athlon X2 7550 will be a 2.5GHz Kuma, except the clock all other spec is the same with our ES version. Athlon X2 7750 runs at 2.7GHz. For cache,TDP and other information, you can read the chart we compiled. So there is no more Athlon 6500+, AMD want Kuma to be 7 series dual core. Both of the chip will come out in 09Q1. The company positioned Kuma to encounter intel E7400 and E7300.

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