These new Phenom processors will be released in two types: quad-core chips that are named Phenom FX and Phenom X4, and dual-core chip that is named Phenom X2. Meantime AMD will keep manufacturing Athlon 64 X2 chips as a minstream.

Last year Intel has already released its quad-core processors for servers and high-end users. These processors are so called "multichip modules" and are based on pairs of dual-core chips. But AMD has built its quad-core processors as one unit. Each processor has a single chip with four cores, which offer better performance, because information does not have to leave one core to visit the other one. So directly linked cores work better and faster.

Intel insures that the bridges between cores prove processor's excellent performance, but AMD's single chip is still is a challenge for Intel. Still AMD's chips are not yet released we can't know whether the chips are better than Intel's.

But Intel is not wasting its time. It is going to release new quad-core single chips with four cores just as AMD's Phenom.

So let's wait for the second half of this year to see how fast AMD's Phenom Processor is.

By Ruzan Harutyunyan for HULIQ