AMD plans to continue to support the gaming market with its high-end, single-core Athlon FX processor, she says.
The company plans to introduce a higher-performance version of the Athlon FX, the FX57, this summer. Currently, its highest performance Athlon FX, the FX55, has a clock speed for 2.6 GHz.
Virtually all gaming software is written as a single-thread application, where the use of a dual-core processor would have limited impact on performance, De Onis says. http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163702270