AMD Athlon II X2 255 and Phenom II X2 555

Yesterday some info surfaced on the fact that AMD  launched the Athlon II X2 255 processor, a new dual-core Socket AM3 chip based on the 45nm Regor.

The AMD Athlon II X2 255 is clocked at 3.1GHz (15.5 x 200MHz), each core has 1MB L2 cache (2MB total cache) and it has a 65W TDP. The chip supports DDR2 and DDR3 memory, and may replace the Athlon II X2 250.

Also a dual-core Phenom II X2 555 is pending a release, with it's clocks at 3.2GHz and 7MB of cache.It is expected to launch in Q4 this year. Each core has 512KB of L2 cache and 6MB of L3 cache and a 80 Watt TDP.