Efter nyheden om at Kentsfield ville komme i slutningen af 2006 har AMD valgt at fremvise deres egen quadcore i 2006 også.'
En af de store forskelle på Kentsfield og K8L er at K8L er en "rigtig" quadcore, hvoriod Kentsfield er to dualcores sat sammen. Om det giver ekstra performance er vi nød til at vente med at se.
Efter en fremvisning gættes der på der vil gå ca. et halvt år inden vi ser den i butikkerne.
"Earlier AMD roadmaps have revealed that quad-core production CPUs would not utilize a native quad-core design until late 2007 or 2008. To put that into perspective AMD demonstrated the first dual-core Opteron samples in spring 2004, with the processor tape out in June 2004. The official launch of dual-core Opteron occurred on April 21, 2005. On the same call Meyer announced that that the native quad-core would launch in the middle of 2007 -- suggesting the non-native quad-core Deerhound designs may come earlier than expected or not at all." http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3448