"So far we have now seen AMD release the Phenom core in quad, tri and dual core variants, slowly phasing out the K8 architecture for all time. And it’s about time, as AMD has been relying on this same architecture since 2003 when Hammer was released at Computex.

Today AMD up’s the ante in regards to Phenom with some minor changes to the design. We take a look at the Phenom II 940 processor core along with a new platform named Dragon to complement the latest technology."