According to Golem.de web-site, AMD is showing off its next-generation high-performance Leo platform powered by the company’s six-core AMD Phenom II X6 “Thuban” chip, AMD 8-series core-logic sets and ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards. The Sunnyvale, California-based maker of microprocessors did not reveal clock-speed of the chip, but it is rumoured that the highest possible frequency of AMD’s six-core chip will be 2.80GHz. By contrast, AMD’s most advanced quad-core desktop chip – Phenom II 965 – is clocked at 3.40GHz.

AMD demos Phenom II X6 desktop microprocessor