AMD Planning to Sample Bulldozer Core in Q4
AMD Planning to Sample Bulldozer Core in Q4
Posted 09/21/2010 at 6:42am
| by Paul Lilly
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AMD, apparently eager to get its Bulldozer core out the door, might be shipping its next generation architecture sooner than we thought. Mike Magee over at TechEye.net says he recently met up with John Fruehe, who said that AMD plans to start sampling Bulldozer cores in the fourth quarter of this year.
Fruehe went on to say that Bulldozer, which has been built from the ground up, will continue to use the same sockets and the same power envelopes to alleviate potential headaches and ease the process of migrating to the newer platforms.
AMD's Bulldozer architecture marks the first major redesign of the company's processor line since the launch of the original Athlon 64 chips way back in 2003. Every CPU since then has basically been a tweaked version rather than a brand new architecture. Bulldozer is different.
"There will be enhancements to our memory controllers, things we cannot talk about just yet, that we expect to help reduce the time to access memory, both locally and remotely," Fruehe said in a blog post.
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burntjuggalas
September 21, 2010 at 1:08pm
Im excited to see what kind of performance increases bulldozer will bring. I really hope that the metaphor of Bulldozer "dozing" Sandy Bridge pans out perfectly and AMD Steamrolls Intel once again =) Woot woot for the underdog! =-P Regardless if they did or not though, AMD is getting a kick ass flagship processor performance upgrade.
Yes im a AMD fanboy, and im not ashamed to promote it!
Keith E. Whisman
September 21, 2010 at 9:51am
I really think that Bulldozer should have triple or a quad channel memory controller for increased memory bandwidth, its this that I believe keeps it from competing more with the Intel chips.
So with Bulldozer, I would have been happy to see a new motherboard requirement because of the technological advancements in Bulldozer. Giving great value can go only so far before it actually turns into a mess. When the quest for value gets in the way of technological advancement, it's a bad thing, it ceases to be a good value.
whr4usa
September 21, 2010 at 12:52pm
dittos
not requiring the AM3+ socket & manufacturing this new marvel of engineering to force-fit it into existing sockets & be compatable with existing motherboards & BIOS' just sets the stage for an epic AMD fail & you're quite correct Keith they'll never compete with Intel unless they goto trichannel memory for their hexacores atleast . . . quadchannel won't happen . . . not current modern x86-64e processor from either company has true quad channel . . . AMD's Opterons don't carry the warranty of the Xeons among other things & only actually have dual channel controllers that are cascaded IF you've a dual-socket board with supporting bios otherwise it functions much like the oriiginal simultaneous multithreading on the P4
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