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Review: AMD brings 45nm process and Phenom to bear on dual-core CPUs

by Tarinder Sandhu on 2 June 2009, 00:00 3.6

Tags: AMD Athlon II X2 250, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Note the greyed-out L3 cache. AMD's saving a chunk of die-space by not having it present on the die.


And the double-sized L2 cache.



Manufactured by GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany and packaged in Malaysia, the X2 250 looks like any other AM3 chip.