More information about Bulldozer schedule:
No Bulldozer in H1 2010:
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/ ... 107,00.htm
Quote:
A four-core and eight-core design code-named Montreal, on the road map as recently as last December, has disappeared entirely. It will be replaced by six-core and 12-core designs known as "Sao Paolo" and "Magny-Cours" (Formula 1 race venues, CNET News.com was told), which are scheduled to arrive in the first half of 2010 and are based on the same underlying processor core technology as Barcelona, said Randy Allen, corporate vice president and head of AMD's server division. That means those chips will not use the "Bulldozer" core first introduced by AMD in July 2007.
No Bulldozer at 45nm at all!?!:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... stores-bitQuote:
The most distressing part is Bulldozer. Much was made of it not being on the roadmaps last December, but that was a tempest in a tea kettle. The real problems have come out since then, and the only way to say it is that the architecture is a huge flop.
No, this isn't to say that it won't be fast or meet every spec that it was meant to, simply that it can't be done on a 45nm process. This means that it will be on the 32nm node pushing it out to late late 2010 best case.
I don't think that AMD is willing to introduce a brand new core on a new process, thus second news item would mean no Bulldozer in 2010.
It's quite sad, it seems that Barcelona will be the last AMD's core aimed for high-end desktop/server market
