AMD Athlon64 FX-60 Toldeo On January 10th

According to The Inquirer, the FX-60 based on 90nm Toledo core will be launched by AMD on January 10th and folks at HKEPC have got a hold of a FX-60 clocked at 2.6GHz (13.0 x 200MHz), Dual Core, 2 x 1MB L2 cache, 1.35V VCore and JH-E6 stepping. It will be the last Socket 939 processor of the Athlon 64 FX family where the its successor will be the FX-62 which is Socket M2 based and supports Dual Channel DDR2 667. Athlon X2 and FX-60 share similarities since both are dual-core and are based on the Toledo core where FX-60 is essentially a "higher clocked" version of the current X2 4800+ at 2.4GHz. The next X2 in the line will be based on the "Windsor" core and Socket M2 based and will start appearing in Q2 2006. The Athlon 64 X2 5000+ will be clocked at 2.667GHz (8.0 x 333.3MHz) and contains 2 x 1MB L2.