We've managed to confirm the existence of Kuma CPU and to our surprise AMD will shortly start shipping this CPU. We are talking about a dual core K10 with 2.3GHz clock and 2x512KB cache and this CPU comes with 3MB of shared L3 cache.

Kuma won't be branded as Phenom, it will remain under Athlon umbrella and it will sell for under €100 in European etail. This price gets it really close to Toliman Triple core that should end up at least slightly faster but at the same time Tolliman at same speed should end up at least 10 to €20 more expensive.

The real high performance K10.5 45nm dual core codenamed Regor comes in mid 2009 but until then this one will have to do. We expect to see Kuma in retail in next week or two. 

You can pre order one here.