A 3.2GHz Phenom II X4 955 has been listed. It is a Socket AM3 package with a 125W thermal envelope.

http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:6JeTRvkC480J:www.emaxasp.com/nbecomputers/details.asp%3Fitem%3DAM36HD955T+HDZ955FBK4DGI

The product is real. Search for the product code and you'll find a number of listings, though this is the cheapest at $280. Pre-launch prices of CPUs tend to be higher than final street price, so I estimate it should end up around the price of the Q9550, $270.

Preliminary testing ( http://hardware-infos.com/tests.php?test=64 ) shows that, paired with DDR2-1066 memory,  it is on average 5% faster than the previous high-end, the X4 940. This is in line with the theoretical max of 7% boost in clock speed and 11% boost in northbridge speed. That would make it competitive with Intel's Q9550. and Figures should be 1-2% higher than that with the full DDR3-1333 memory that this supports.

nice.. although 125W TDP does sound a lil too high..

With this and the 4890X2 AMD seems to really be on the ball for the first time in a long time.

Ignore that. AMD's TDP figures are theoretical worst-case scenario; Intel's are practical worst-case scenario. For this reason, AMD CPUs with the same average power consumption as an Intel one tend to be rated much higher. The whole system consumes* about about 20% more power than a 65W Intel quad-core at load (giving a 78W Intel-equivalent TDP) and 10% less power than that Intel one at idle (which is where it will spend most of its time).

*From the review I linked to, the 955 consumes similar to a 940. My figures are from another review comparing a 940 to Intel's 65W quad-cores. Since you can't measure CPU power directly, whole system consumption is used, which in fact gives a more accurate representation of the electricity bill and heat output. Source: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3505&p=2

I'm more interested in the 25 watt quad core that they talked about back in November. Any idea when that's coming?

Last I read, late April, and it was 45W. But nothing official yet.

Hmmm I'll have to look it up again.  I could have swore I saw a 25 watt version running at 2ghz and a 45 watt version running 2.2-2.4 ghz.

I wish AMD showed more promise in the mobile processor market.. the Neo is a great chip but they need to really push it to vendors, since only HP seems to suport it right now. As for the turion, I havent heard anything good about that yet.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090403PD205.html

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12995&Itemid=38

"BenQ plans to launch 12.1-inch and 13.3-inch Yukon-based ultra-thin notebooks in May and will launch Intel consumer ultra low voltage-based (CULV-based) ultra-thin notebooks at a later time."

Sempron Uxxx = Athlon Neo. Same chip.

As for Turion, they tend to be in cheap laptops. But since CPUs don't limit performance these days, a good Turion laptop with AMD graphics can smash one with a superpowered Intel CPU and Intel graphics in real-world benchmarks and still be cheaper.

But I'm waiting for AMD's Phenom II based mobile platform coming later this year. It will actually be able to compete.

AMD is heavy. I love the Phenoms.