Perhaps, before adding to the family Athlon II X4 will not take much time. The source reports that AMD plans to introduce processor Athlon II X4 635 with a nominal frequency 2.9GGts somewhere in the next quarter. In addition to the frequency at 100MHz operating frequency exceeding Athlon II X4 630, equal to 2.8GHz, the new AMD processor there will be little different from its predecessor. That is, it will also be made on the basis of the kernel Propus, it will have 512K of L2 cache per core, and will not cache L3, and power consumption by new items will be 95Vt.

Currently, AMD sells processors Athlon II X4 630 to $ 123 for parties of 100 pieces, while the price of CPU Athlon II X4 620 with a frequency of 2.66GHz is $ 99 in the batch of 1000 pieces. According to rumors, the emergence of X4 processor 635 will lower prices on Athlon II X4 630 and X4 620, but is not yet known how much.

If this happens, the sale Phenom II X3 720 could fall. Despite the fact that this processor has 6Mb cache L3, he works on the same frequency as the X4 630, but has a higher price. On the other hand, lower prices on some AMD processors could make to reduce the price of Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200.