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AMD outlines an all 28nm 2013
CHIP DESIGNER AMD has filled in its 2013 roadmap by revealing the Sea Islands, Kaveri, Kabini and Tesmash chips at the firm's analyst day.
As Rory Read, the recently hired CEO of AMD told analysts and the firm's favoured journalists, AMD "is a different company and this is a different time". The firm talked in general terms about how it will give its GPGPUs faster access to memory resources, and more immediate plans were laid down including its lineup for 2013.
AMD explained that it plans to move all of its chips over to a 28nm process node, though that won't happen until 2013. Currently only the firm's latest discrete GPGPU found in its Radeon HD 7950 and Radeon HD 7970 boards are fabbed at 28nm.
So it was no surprise that AMD said that its next generation Sea Islands GPU will also be fabbed at 28nm, but that it will be joined by Kavari, the successor to Trinity, which is expected to come out later this year. Kabini will straddle what the firm calls the low power APU - CPU and GPU on the same die - and its performance APU. Finally and perhaps the most interesting will be Temash, the firm's first generation system-on-chip (SoC), set to replace Hondo.
AMD had talked about Hondo last year, and it is expected the chip will target tablet devices, as AMD had already said it will be skipping the smartphone market altogether. However AMD is set to meet its long-time rival Intel in the tablet market, as Chipzilla is expected to push its Medfield Atom processor into both smartphones and tablets.
AMD also revealed that it will introduce four new Opteron models, and while its Bulldozer Opterons have been met with something of a muted reception, the firm knows it needs to iterate development cycles in order to start reaping the rewards from its modular architecture.
As AMD was humouring analysts, there wasn't a great deal of technical detail on public show, however the firm is coming off the back of a very successful - albeit late - launch of the Tahiti codenamed Radeon HD 7970. The big question is whether TSMC, AMD's presently favoured fab, will be able to accommodate AMD's needs as TSMC has to deal with arguably its highest profile and most demanding customer, Apple. µ
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DDR4 is 20 nm part & expectations are by end of year some DDR4 will be ramping, with 2015 being 50% DDR4.
DDR4 does not use channels. each memory is wired to where be used, all new contrroller & main. speeds from 2.133 Ghz/s to 4.2 Ghz/s. Good improvemnts, near 30%, if other technologies being developed arn't in way.
drashek memory+....
AMD is doomed. Nobody in the IT industry cares about power or performance per dollar. There is one thing that drives server sales, and Intel has it, AMD never will - those blue guys dancing and entertaining and making the sale. What kind of IT buyer would compromise his infrastructure with with no blue men to support his hardware?
Actually BD based Opterons are selling quite well as they provide a far superior performance per dollar in servers compared to Intel. Pretty much everyone knows this and AMD is having a tough time meeting demand for the BD Opterons.
Cray has standing orders for tens of thousands of Opteron 6200's as they ship Super Computer after Super Computer - even if a bit later than in Q4, '11 as intended.
AMD will also be delivering a 3000 series socket AM3+ BD Opteron for single unit servers.