AMD is dedicating a new blog to its upcoming microprocessor architecture code-named Bulldozer, which will come out in new Opteron chips in 2011. AMD officials will give more details about Bulldozer and the architecture code-named Bobcat, aimed at ultrathin notebooks and other smaller devices, at the Hot Chips conference Aug. 24.
Advanced Micro Devices officials have launched a blog dedicated to the
company's upcoming "Bulldozer" processor architecture, which will be disclosed
at a conference later in August.
Postings on The Bulldozer
Blog, which launched Aug. 2, will focus primarily on the commercial side of
the business, though there will be some discussion of the consumer space,
according to John Fruehe, director of product marketing for AMD
server and workstation products, who wrote the first post.
"The server business tends to have much longer sales
cycles and more architectural discussions, so you will see more focus from us
in those areas," Fruehe said.
Bulldozer is AMD's first new
microprocessor architecture in several years, and is aimed at the server and
desktop PC spaces. AMD officials will give
further details when they talk about the architecture at the Hot Chips
conference Aug. 24 at Stanford University
in California.
At the same time, they will give more details about
"Bobcat," a new core architecture for low-end, ultrathin notebooks
and other smaller devices. Like Bulldozer, Bobcat will be coming out in 2011.
AMD officials aren't giving
out many details on Bulldozer, such as a precise launch date, pricing or
benchmark results. However, with Bulldozer, AMD
will be ramping up the number of cores on each chip. It will be included in new
Opteron server processors, which will scale up to 16 cores. Chips with up to
eight cores, targeted at PCs, will come out afterward.
The microprocessor architecture will offer not only more cores,
but also greater performance than the current Opteron 60000 and 4000 series
chips.
"There will be some new software instructions that will be
supported, allowing for greater performance and flexibility, but it will be
backward-compatible so you won't need to change anything to start using the
processor," Fruehe said in his post.
Bulldozer also will offer a new floating point unit that can
support up to 256-bit floating point execution, an important step for technical
applications found in HPC (high-performance
computing) environments.
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