AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer, 2011 flagship CPU cores, detailed today

[Wildside]

AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer, 2011 flagship CPU cores, detailed today -- Engadget

The Bulldozer also has a future in the Fusion line, but it's earliest role will be as a standalone CPU product for servers and high-end consumer markets. The crafty thing about its architecture is that every one Bulldozer module will be counted as two cores. This is because AMD has split its internal processing pipelines into two (while sharing as many internal components as possible), resulting in a sort of multicore-within-the-core arrangement. The way the company puts it, it's multithreading done right. Interlagos is the codename of the first Opteron chips to sport this new core, showing up at some point next year in a 16-core arrangement (that's 8 Bulldozers, if you're keeping score at home) and promising 50 percent better performance than the current Magny-Cours flagship........

i am so excited now! My next CPU for sure!

 

[iPROTechman]

Looks epic... Not sure i want to get Thuban 1055t now.....

 

[CntdwnToExtn]

Well, I knew my MC's would only be the newest for so long but reading that, it looks like they will get blown out of the water.

 

[gurusan]

Hopefully there will be some good ITX platforms.

 

[yzmxer608]

So how many cores will the Bulldozer high level chips be?

 

[iPROTechman]

Im guessing Quads/Hex/ lol or maybe more!

 

[yzmxer608]

Pretty cool AMD is getting a version of multi-threading, should be interesting to see how this turns out.

 

[iPROTechman]

Pretty cool AMD is getting a version of multi-threading, should be interesting to see how this turns out.

Yeah I'm excited too.

 

[Abstract Hero]

So how many cores will the Bulldozer high level chips be?

8 cores split into 16

 

[yzmxer608]

So it's an octa core? That's what I couldn't figure out.