The Quad Core Roadmap from AMD

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According to the company's latest roadmap for servers and workstations, it will be introducing quad-core technology in 2007. That's actually Q2 2007 as opposed to Intel which is due to offer quad-core in Q4 2006.

At Dresden, Armari's technical director, Dan Goldsmith, told journalists: "The AMD Opteron processor roadmap for servers features just one AMD64 core over a six year period, which means we don't have to make costly decisions choosing between different architectures."


The roadmap also outlines improvements in the chipset and platform support areas. However, Richard Baker, European channel marketing manager with AMD, was at pains to point out that the company's acquisition of ATI wasn't going to affect AMD's support for other manufacturers' offerings.


The company wasn't going to "hoist" the use of ATI graphic chips onto its channel partners, Baker said. It was going to claim, however, that AMD offers the best platform support for Windows Vista.


AMD also revealed that it intends to go big on its power management facility, which it calls PowerNow! This will enable the processor to operate in five power states – as opposed to Intel's three states – and fall back down to 32 watts as opposed to 95 watts when running at optimum speed.



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I said I will not thank u till u started thanking others but for this post I cant wait Awesome

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..Dont expect THNKS from Bakuryu...
He is just like a GUY who is dedicated to just one work.
He is quite, Patient, awarefull, n brilliant
Even if u sit chatting with him. he never says hi.....nor good bye...
I had fighted with him for this..But somethings in life NEVER change.
So i think THANKS meter of bakuryu will remain " 0 " only
or else Sun will rise from west
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any ways good info..now let me be myself n thnks him for the post

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No. I am planning of changing the meter to 1 .. within a few weeks or so

Btw ... get on with the topic and STOP discussing on me !!!

X-Caliber

Se wht i said was right. He is just dedicated.

On topic.. its too long time ....now..n i think a year or more will take to get the hands on it in INDIA
now this is interesting
well will have to start saving the money from now onwards.
Manufacturers should start thinking on conserving The Power of graphic cards too...450 watt minimum is just not acceptable...atleast for me

bakuryu

THERE HAS BEEN a lot of conflicting info coming out about AMD, quad cores and its 65 nanometre process. To clear this all up, TheInquirer dug up the info the old fashioned way. So, directly from the horse's mouth, here is the info on all the hot AMD topics.

The QC parts are rumoured to be coming in Q2/07, Q4/07 and Q1/08, and are said to be both the old and the new cores. Some people call the Q2 part K8L, others call the Q4/Q1 parts the same, but since AMD has no product called K8L, that is kind of speculative.


So, which story is right, and what timetable is it on? The short version is that all QC parts are the new core, Rev H, any stories to the contrary, including mine, are wrong. That said, the timelines, all three of them, are correct. There are two new cores coming from AMD, and three times for introductions.


The first one, set for Q2/07 is code named Barcelona, and it is a Rev H cored quad capable part with HT2.0. It will come in all power levels, including 68W and the SE 120W, but mainstream parts should be 95W. Barcelona cores will fit into existing infrastructure with no modifications necessary providing the boards and chipsets meet all the current specs.

So, what about Q4/07 and Q1/08? Well, that is the interesting part, it is the other new core for the year. The Q4/07 part is called Budapest, and it is the Barcelona core with HT3.0 in 12xx Opteron and A64 guise. The core should be done well within the alloted time frames, but its introduction may be delayed due chipset availability. Basically, this is the first major update to HT, and people may miss windows.

The next major part is called Shanghai, it is simply the 22xx and 82xx version of Budapest. It is being delayed to Q1/08, possibly Q2 because of the aforementioned chipset availability and likely increased validation needs. Lets just say you should see Shanghai in 1H/08.

So, two cores, three introductions, and a lot of conflicting info. That also sums up the stuff swirling about 65 nanometre production. Let's be clear about this, full flow this month means just that, the fabs are flowing fully, this does not mean the wafers are coming out of the fabs yet. It takes about 12 weeks from the time a wafer goes in to the fab to the time it comes out with pretty pictures drawn on it.


So, the summary for the short attention span set, two new cores with three introductions. On top of that, you have 65nm coming in months, not a month.



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