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AMD will sample chips early next year
AMD SAID yesterday that it will release samples of processor chips built with its Bulldozer and Bobcat CPU cores to computer makers early in 2010.
Senior vice president Rick Bergman said the company wants to give its customers enough time to prepare for product releases at the end of the year.
The plan is that hardware manufacturers can see what is coming so they can gear up to produce products as soon as the processors become available in volume.
The Bobcat core has a sub-1W capable core with four integer and two floating-point instruction pipelines.
The Bulldozer core is a Bobcat with another four-pipeline integer unit added. Instead of having one combined integer and floating-point scheduler, Bulldozer has two integer schedulers that share a single floating-point scheduler.
Processors incorporating multiple Bulldozer and Bobcat cores will be built on a 32nm silicon on insulator (SOI) process using high-K metal gates.
AMD has also been talking up its Fusion products, which will be a combination of processor and graphics chips, suggesting that it will be making something that Intel can't.
The company claims that Fusion will do its thing by putting the memory controller in charge. Initial fusion cores are going to have both x86 and GPU components, connected via a shared memory controller in the form of a crossbar switch.
Since GPUs need massive memory bandwidth the memory controller is important, particularly if you have multiple CPU cores to work with. AMD needed to come up with a way of feeding several CPU cores with a few hundred GPU cores attached, and apparently it thinks it has.
Pulling this off will be a technological feat in itself and making it work will show that AMD is back in the running. AMD has been falling behind Intel in the chip technology race lately and this has been hurting its bottom line. µ
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See my previous comment for the link to what he actually said.
Again in response to a question.
It was admitted that the initial samples which will be released to partners early in 2010 use the current 'stars' cores -obviously to speed up delivery schedule. Those are running through the Dresden fab now.
It was explicitly stated- I think by
Chekib Akrout, General Manager, Technology Group - in response to a question,
That the Bobcat core is fully synthesizeable and was developed by a completely separate team from the Bulldozer core, which uses custom logic and is NOT synthesiseable.
Therefore they will fab Bulldozer on GlobalFoundries SOI process and also be able to fab Bobcat on other processes like e.g. TSMC bulk silicon process.
The entire 'Financial Analyst Day' Briefing and subsequent Q&A is online here:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-analystday
First. Turn on your spell checker. It makes your arguments and statements look more mature.
Second. You make AMD out to be bumbling idiots that can't ever get a product right. The reality is, the CPU market as a whole, (Intel included) is where it is now thanks to many of AMD's efforts and innovations.
You point to one very small and limited problem that was fixed quickly as proof of your argument. Ever hear of the Pentium FDIV bug? It was just as rare in the wild, but Intel pulled a Microsoft and hid their heads in the sand and ended looking bad to the point of having to recall all affected CPU's. Did this mean Intel was shite and would never release another good product? No. They just made a mistake.
Competition is what brings us great technology at an even better price. As most of us are tech junkies, we should be supporting both sides.
... and still will be an achievement because taking more then one step at a time usually spells desaster in semiconductors.
So I expect the same old Barcelona story. AMD has to take more then one step at a time, even it is risky.
But, on the other side, with the Intel cash infusion coming for Christmas, AMD now can afford several more design spins and silicon revisions.
Time will tell.
People Have HELD On to AMD hoping for reprieve. Apparently Priorities took Over & FAST Shot Solution Came In Progress.
Again, Charlie HIT Bugger On Nose, Yesterday At AMD Conference & Bulldozer plus Fuszon Spurt OUT. vats des scribed IS 2 Core MOD. Yet, It IS Bulldozier.
It Might Also Go by Code Name: BuBa. yet, migration to on die processes Continues & thats Good. Plus NT6 IS Only BADDIE In Town, making Narrower & easier to engineer Feat. AMD FET Took soaking & Hopefully, Magny Cous will Out Soak Everyone Into Howling, whimpering, Crying Riot of GivMe.
Magny Cous is 100 Gb/s thruPut or 3X Xeon WhimZness. theCOUS is 2 Isatnbul Side by Side, On Die. Its Keane Execution of Magny Went So Swell.
drashek
Just a few years ago I could come to this site and get detailed information about products that weren't' going to hit the shelves for years. Then the good staff left. Now all that's left is press releases and links to V3. Sad!
An processor core with an integrated memory controller, drawing less than 1 Watt? Is this gonna be an in-order cpu like Atom?
that Bulldozer will have a "synthesizer" on board
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Someone should have mentioned the poor Hector, that BAD, the Ugly.
Not that much seem to have changed, since he left.
All promises, where made with him a year ago.
Come on AMD kick some ass!