AMD announced a new series of tri-core processors a while back. AMD did not reveal what the specific models would be called though, we assumed Phenom X3 and the other would be called X2 and X4. According to VR-Zone, the tri-core models will be called Phenom 7XXX and the core has been code-named Toliman. Even though AMD emphasized, over and over, that it’s a genuine tri-core, it is a four-core Agena chipset that has been reduced to three cores. AMD will launch the first two models in March 2008, Phenom 7700 and 7600 will be clocked at 2.5GHz and 2.3GHz. Both processors are designed for the Socket AM2+ platform and will have a TDP at 89W. There are already indications of a tri-core 45nm processor called Heka which will arrive in 2009, simply a Deneb circuit where one core have been deactivated.
