AMD's Direction and Next-Gen Bulldozer CPU Revealed

AMD already discussed more analysts and enthusiasts than ever. Intel had a very impressive with 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad core processors for several months and AMD almost no answer. Today AMD "Technology Analyst Day, and we will be hearing of the technical staff at AMD, Phil Hester with the" CPU "and Bob Drebin in" GP ". Of course, we know that AMD has been beating "Fusion" product roll out over many months an entry into a new market, which represents some significant changes in how the CPU and GPU sold in the channel, not to mention changes in the technology itself. Today, we learn, "Bulldozer" and "Bobcat" cores, and "M-SPACE" among others. First of all, AMD wants us all to realize that they are far from easy "CPU" more. ATI acquisitions in many markets, AMD believes that it will encourage x86 computers in the very near future. Article Article Image Image Image Article Article Article Image Image These slide above explain what AMD did not speak months. AMD sees great potential in emerging markets in terms of more powerful and versatile processor in these markets. Understand that AMD sees power in the computing and graphics processor phones and a set of multimedia content just to name a few, and AMD believes that the acquisition of ATI will accelerate its move into these new markets x86. Path M-SPACE Article Article Image Image Before we see AMD move to actually produce sprayed with GP and CPU transistors are on the same die, and in fact share the logic, we find AMD moved their M-SPACE design. Remember, as AMD with its technology and portioning them into building blocks that can be custom designed for specific applications. This will be mainly for mobile and set top box markets, as it is now is a way to the scales and practices to adapt technology to these segments. With M-SPACE development companies can come to AMD and the processor and graphics engine combination built for the specific needs of the device. Thus, the customers get what they need, rather than "general" CPU and GPU combination, which exists in the market. The General Schedule Article Article Image Image This is a slide that enthusiasts can find the time to laugh, but obviously AMD expects last R600/2000 series processors, which are currently on the market. In the photo above, to once again look to mobile devices. Strengthening high level DX9 and DX10 graphics quality in the mobile segment of a major deal, and one thing that ATI has a huge amount of AMD mobile business. While many enthusiasts of nothing but playing cards, ATI has a long tradition of fanning the handset market and doing a very good job with it. AMD merger GP, display ports, and all the PCIe bus on silicon offers many image possibilities that we have not seen in the past with mobile devices, especially portable category. Moreover, while HD Radeon 2000 series heard from the players, there is no doubt that AMD Single Video Decoder is set in this area. New samplers design Article Image With M-SPACE is a new set of CPU cores, well into modular design functionality. AMD sees these new models are used with very high to very low-end application needs. The name "Dozer" and "Bobcat" could mean, you can figure out where the two models fit into the scheme of things. BULLDOZER Article Image While AMD did not release the little details that the processor under the hood around, from what we have seen it almost entirely new approach to handling while maintaining a focus on not removing from legacy applications that exist in the market. We see Dozer enterprise servers, as well as on our own machines. Claims that the majority should be directed to that, "Scaling for a continuation of the flow" and "Divided future scalability and modularity." This told me that the bulldozer can be transformed, depending on the application whether the specific needs of the many threads or yarns, and one needs to use all its resources. Currently, with two or four processors, where we have the resources, a thirst for threaded applications, which are usually the case, our core (s) to do nothing. Dozer seems to be able to combine its core work together on a single threaded application. As for the "shared" the statement, I have to read that in the centre Dozer is something akin to AMD M-SPACE design methodology that it would be possible for AMD to build Dozer samples for specific hardware. I think he deserves that Dozer is a radical departure from current AMD core samples even Barcelona, which did not hit the market. Dozer will be the first "break", we know from the core AMD K8. Dozer easily the most promising architecture, which we saw with the AMD Opteron since its launch in April 2003. Bulldozers be put into "Sandtiger" server arena and working in mid - to-late 2009 with DDR3 memory. Article Article Image Image When you see references to 8 or 16 Dozer Serdechniki and think nothing new to remember that we have not seen that in those samples, or as a principal could be reduced or modules. BOBCAT Article Image Bobcat to slide here even more difficult than the one above, but it is clear that AMD M-SPACE methodology means attacking mobile space and set top box market over the table, but we are likely to see more products in the table, using Bobcat in the future. With M-SPACE philosophy and Bobcat AMD to build concrete Fusion platform to meet the needs of its customers. FALCON FUSION Sokol will be the first step in the direction of product sprayed from AMD. Article Image With so much attention Fusion Technology in the past year, Sokol Fusion part of this family certainly covers the first step indeed, we see in that direction. While we look at the Falcons as they come in certain modules, the technology of living on a piece of silicon. The Fusion is moving forward, we will see the CPU and GPU sharing transistors, and indeed becomes a "minor" together in a real sense, or at least that is what Phil Hester outlined his vision for HardOCP. Concluding slides Article Article Image Image Image article article article Image Image Image article article article Image Image Image Article Article Article Image Image Image Article Conclusions Obviously great story today - Dozer. This does not take away Bobcat and Fusion technology, but they will not make brute force technology, AMD will need to compete with Intel. And while Dozer is a "brute force" product it is going to bring with them svelte capabilities, which make it a suitable solution for many applications. While some expect only multi-core processors and multithreaded applications, we must realize that real change to a multi-threaded infrastructure further than publicly available bit of when AMD was the first to address the core processing checks and we are far from this path is clearly entering the market. As we noted above, Bulldozers represents a radical departure from K8 technology, which is the basis for the forthcoming Barcelona AMD cores. And K8 Opteron and Athlon families served us well, which is looking for recently little brighter for AMD Barcelona. But no mistake about it : AMD is going to expect low power consumption Barcelona model that deliver excellent performance per watt stop the bleeding in terms of technology, management and profits based on the Intel Q209. Barcelona scale high-GHz, it should be competitive, but do not think the number by 2008. AMD needs to break with the K8 to drive forward and represent himself Bulldozer platform that works. We will see if Barcelona servers and workstations parts along with the upcoming board of Fen enough to keep AMD afloat until the arrival Bulldozer operator and the speaker hoped before that.

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