"AMD tossed out a blizzard of codenames today, some new, some already leaked. Let's just say it put out a lot of info.
The first thing it said was that there will be a third Opteron platform in 2009, the first two being 940 and 1207. There are little hard specs on this, but if you know where to look, you can get some clues. From there, things got more specific. The platforms are based on memory, 940 was DDR, 1207 is DDR2, and the next one will be DDR3.
Randy Allen started off with 45 nanometre production coming in the second half of 2008, a bit of a slip from where it was last time it was dated. Those chips will lead off with Shanghai, the 45 nanometre Opteron. It will have 6MB of cache, core improvements, and can come in an MCM. That MCM is called Sandtiger, and it has 4 HT links.
The next code name is Hardcastle, the name for top to bottom business class machines. It isn't a single thing, more of a focus on what businesses need like thin and light notebooks, energy efficient desktops and the like. This hasn't really been a focus for AMD up until now, and it will be quite easy for it to gain share from the near zero it's at now.
The commercial platforms now are Brubridge on the desktop and "Kite" for mobile. These are replaced in 2008 by Perseus, and AM2+ based corporate desktop. It is up to a quad core with 2MB of shared L3 cache , and has HT3. The mobile refresh is Puma, and that is pretty well known now. It is basically Griffin with a 7xx series chipset.
That bring us to the core after Barcelona called Bulldozer and its little brother, Bobcat. This core will have a claimed 1.3 to 2x the IPC of Barcelona. Bulldozer is aimed at the current K8 market and Bobcat is aimed lower, think UMPCs and big cell phones. Bulldozer is in the 10-100W range, Bobcat in the 1-10 range with a bunch of overlap in the 10W range.
On the high end side, the new names are Spider and Leo. Spider is a Phenom X4, 2MB L3, and a 7xx series Radeon. Leo follows it up in 2008 with 6MB of L3, up to 4 GPUs, and a 55nm shrink of the 2900. It also has HT3.
A little down the food chain we have Pinwheel and Cartwheel, the 2007 and 2008 consumer desktops. Pinwheel is a current chip on a 690 board. Cartwheel has a 1MB L3 45nm CPU and an RD7xx chipset. Not much hugely exciting there.
In the end, quite a blizzard of upcoming products with not a great deal of detail to back this up. That detail will presumably dribble out over the next year or two."
