AMD's next generation architecture, codenamed Bulldozer, will feature amulti-threading system, Xbitlabs reports.
However, AMD claimsthat Bulldozer's multi-threading is different from the simultaneousmulti-threading (SMT) available with Intel's HyperThreading.
Thefirst Bulldozer desktop CPU, Orochi, is expected to be a 6/8 core CPUwith >8MB cache, supporting DDR3 RAM, manufactured on 32nm. It is dueto hit stores in 2011. The Fusion CPUs or APUs (Accelerated ProcessingUnits), as AMD calls them, are also part of the Bulldozer architecture. Bulldozer is expected to support up to 16 cores.It is expected to be the most significant change in AMD's CPUarchitecture since K8, back in 2003.
The next CPU on AMD'sroadmap is the 12-core server CPU "Magny Cours" based on a Multi-ChipModule, which packages two 6-core "Istanbul" dies in one package. TheMagny Cours CPU is designed for the elongated Socket G34, and willlaunch in Q1 2010. It is also expected to be the last AMD CPU tillBulldozer, according to AMD's current roadmap. In the desktop arena, thePhenom II/Athlon II products may have to fight all the way through 2010, according to AMD's current roadmaps.
Reference: Xbitlabs
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