New 45nm chips from AMD

• New 45nm chips from AMD (which builds all its 64-bit microprocessors on SOI):
  • Athlon™ II X2 250 processor for mainstream consumers and the Phenom™ II X2 550 Black Edition processor, the first ever dual-core AMD Phenom II CPU.
  • the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor family, to address rising demand for increased performance balanced by greater power-efficiency for cloud computing and web serving environments.