People are (over)excited about AMD's Phenom II X6 processor that we used to call Thuban, but the company also has some new Athlon II X2 processors in the pipe.

Athlon II X2 255 with 3.1GHz clock and 65W TDP has already launched and its successor Athlon II X2 260 should come in early Q2 2010. If things don’t get delayed we expect this to happen in April.

There is another CPU in the pile, called Athlon II X2 265 clocked at 3.3GHz with 2MB total cache that comes in mid-Q3. This looks to be AMD’s fastest dual-core so far and as every other dual core on market is based on Regor dual-core and manufactured in 45nm and fits in AM3 infrastructure.

There will also be some low voltage versions but of course with lower clocks.