DailyTech posted a news story on the upcoming AMD Tri-core Processors
>> AMD Tri-core Processor Details for 2008 and 2009
AMD picked up big headlines the day before Intel's Fall Developer Forum with the announcement of its upcoming tri-core processors.
AMD's original release did not specify if this tri-core processor, code named Toliman, would be a totally new processor or merely a stripped-down version of the existing Agena core. The answer, it appears, is both.
>> AMD Tri-core Processor Details for 2008 and 2009