<a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3153" http:="" www.anandtech.com="" cpuchipsets=""><span class="content"> <p>We were beginning to worry, and for a while there it seemed like Phenom wouldn't even come out this year. At the last minute, plans solidified, and we received our first Socket-AM2+ motherboard, with our first official Phenom sample. What a beautiful sight it was:</p> <p>These chips are launching today, with availability promised by the end of the week. Phenom today is going to be all quad-core only, you'll see dual and triple-core parts in 2008 but for now this is what we get. </p> <p>The architecture remains mostly unchanged from what we've reported on in the past. This is an evolutionary upgrade to K8 and we've already dedicated many pages to explaining exactly what's new. <br /> </p> </span></a>