Currently this is reports. If news is to be assumed then AMD is all set to woo customers with its six-core CPU. Yes, you read it exact. A six-core AMD CPU for customer desktops! The chip would be recognized as Phenom II X6, as well as will most likely come much after Intel reveals its individual six-core Gulftown CPU.

The Thuban is manufacture upon 45nm fabrication development, as well as will be backwards well-suited with presented AM3 as well as AM2+ motherboards.

The chip is predictable to mark a built-in DDR3 controller, massive 904 million transistors, 3MB of L2 along with 6MB of L3 cache.

AMD has confirmed the reports concerning six-core Thuban.

No statement on official release date but the chip is predictable a bit next year.