The Phenom 8x50 in B3 revision will be launching next week. The new CPU manages to come in at a higher clock speed and naturally, it costs less than the Quad-core B3 products.

AMD will put quite a lot of pressure on Intel’s dual-core, as it will send a signal that three are better than two, and in many cases three cores will run almost as fast as a quad-core. This is what our original test with the Phenom Tri core 8600 has revealed and you can check it out here.

Intel already started to send its partners FUD documents claiming that the Core 2 is always better than Tri-core and that Tri-core Phenoms are broken by design, which means that they are scared and that AMD got Intel’s attention.

AMD doesn’t have anything to lose as three-core Phenoms have one core disabled or non-functional and therefore AMD can get better yield from its wafers. We believe that they will sell quite well and most of them will have a 95W TDP.