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AMD has decided to take a small step back in the race for quad-core supremacy.  On Monday, AMD executives confirmed this weekend’s rumors and admitted that the company will indeed introduce a triple-core microprocessor sometime during the first quarter of 2008. “We believe that triple core is the right product at the right time to serve a broad swatch of market,” said AMD vice president Bob Brewer, at Monday’s briefing in San Francisco.

AMD stressed the update does not affect its planned launch date for a consumer-oriented quad-core chip, codenamed Phenom, which is slated for Q4 of this year.  According to AMD, the the tri-core processor makes sense from both a marketing and retail point of view. Due to the slow adoption rate of quad-core, as well as the lack of multi-threaded apps that take advantage of such processors, AMD is banking on the fact that a tri-core processor will offer desktop consumers an attractive middle-of-the-road option.

In particular, Brewer and other AMD executives cited a recent study from Mercury Research pointing out that quad-core processors represented less than two percent of desktop shipments during the second quarter, while dual-core took up the remaining 98 percent. Until demand ramps up for quad-core, triple core will serve as something of an intermediary, according to AMD. At the same time, the company hopes it will also stimulate broader multi-core adoption.

“We left the megahertz race for the core race,” said John Taylor, product communications director at AMD. “The sweet spot is now four (cores) and down … and there are a lot of scenarios where three cores outperforms dual core,” he said.

In terms of architecture, Brewer also confirmed on Monday that the yet-to-be named processor will basically be a quad-core processor with one core disabled, and that it will feature the company’s Direct Connect architecture, as well as a shared L3 cache, and other architectural selling points that Intel currently lacks.  “It’s simply a better intermediate step,” Brewer said, adding that triple core is about product management and design flexibility.

Conveniently enough, it’s also something AMD’s larger competitor, Intel, can’t do at the moment — or at least do well. “Do I rub my hands together a little about that fact? Sure,” said Brewer, “but ultimately this is about scaling.”

Another potential benefit Brookwood points to is production efficiency. If AMD finds it is having many of its quad-core Opteron processors coming off the production line with only three of the four cores fully functioning, then it can still market those as tri-core instead of chucking them into the trash can.

Of course, pricing will be crucial to the success or failure of AMD’s tri-core processors. On that topic, company executives wouldn’t comment other than to say that prices would be competitive.   They better, especially if Intel decides to drop the price of its quad-core processors to match or beat AMD tri-core chips.

Regardless of Intel’s reaction, AMD seems to be using its core strengths — namely, the five years of research and development that went into its Opteron line (formerly codenamed Barcelona) — to its advantage.  AMD executives promised last week that core features from the new quad-core architecture would trickle down to the consumer level. It’s now making good on that promise.  Sometimes slow-and-steady wins the race and it might be the case here.