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Pricing for AMD's Llano and Bulldozer chips tips up
PRICES for AMD's upcoming Llano and Bulldozer chips have been leaked, showing that the x86 processor and graphics chip design firm has six Llano chips and four Bulldozer chips ready to go.
Rumours were doing the rounds late last week that AMD will launch its much hyped Llano and Bulldozer chips next month. A price list for desktop chips also found its way onto a number of web forums, with many web publications viewing the leak as accurate information.
AMD's next generation Llano and Bulldozer cores are seen by the company as its most important chips since the K8, the line of processors that brought out the AMD64 architecture in 2003. If the leaked prices are accurate, AMD will have chips starting from £43 for the dual core Llano E2-3250 all the way up to £200 for the eight-core Bulldozer FX-8130P. These prices are for 1,000 unit lots, so expect single chip retail prices to be somewhat to a lot higher than those mentioned.
While Bulldozer will attack Intel's Core i5 and Core i7 lines of chips it is Llano, with its integrated GPU, that will be most important for AMD. The firm's Fusion application processor unit (APU) design has been promising so much for so long that the Llano APU chips simply have to deliver against Intel's mid-range Sandy Bridge Core i5 chips in both desktops and laptops.
AMD's quad-core Llano chips are reportedly priced between £70 and £105, again in 1,000 unit quantities. So there's nothing wrong with AMD's pricing of these chips, but the question is whether their overall CPU and GPU performance will be close enough to Intel's Sandy Bridge line to make them good value propositions.
There are rumours swirling that AMD has started to ship its Llano chips to PC makers and that the retail channel will see the chips in July. If so, expect laptop PCs sporting AMD's Llano APU chips to tip up just in time for the high volume back-to-school buying season. µ
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I am reading the FIRST thing I always read when I turn on my screen ( yeah, I admit it, you guys (INQ) HAVE made me $$). AHA, AMD is FINALLY able to get these A(C)PUs out of the door. GREAT! As I am enjoying the article, I happen to accidentally "mouse" over a highlighted word PROCESSOR is one. A phrase NEXT GENERATION. Do you know how F***ing irritating it is to in the middle of an article about ONE company to include ads about ANOTHER!. I also take offense in that Intel has been found GUILTY of not just bad, but LIBELED business practices. So guys, PLEASE take that into consideration. If the article is about AMD, include snippets ABOUT AMD! Maybe little thoughts, or ADS ( revenue, right) that AMD just MIGHT like to let us in on, that didn't make the "cut" as an article..
Until retail pricing, and TDP (powr consumption) and benchmarks, its all a bit up in the air. I wouldnt expect them to be compat with existing mobo tho, I mean its a whole new arch with two fat modules lobbed into one (CPU+GPU). So pinouts etc would be all wrong. Def new mobo in my opinion, best way tho with radical new Qwikkymart employee.
APU stands for Accelerated Processing Unit, not "Application Processing Unit".
Quote From AMD site:
"AMD Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Unit)."
Until I see real pricing and real product along with benchmarks I would take all this leaked info with a grain of salt or two. If you go with Sandy Bridge alternative, then you will be buying new mobo etc, so can't see the issue. If AMD continue with their long lasting chipset support, unlike Intel who seem to force a new mobo every 18 months (or less), then I will be quite keen to see what they have to offer. I prefer to upgrade parts (if posible) so the AMD approach works for me.
100 to much for the Bulldozers.
I cant believe the price for (if) the 2 Module 4 Cores chip 4000 series.
Didnt AMD tell the HT core accounts for some 5% of die area.
Isnt the some saving by the 32 nm process, enough to sell it in the range of a Phenom II 500 Series?
With no real Power saving at the TDP Level, forced to buy a new mobo ...
that doesnt feel the like "I must".