AMD Roadmap through 2011

[WiCKeD]

AMD seems to be getting back on track with the technical gap between intel set to close by 2011.

Earlier this week, a Finnish website released an updated roadmap of AMD's mainstream and high-end platforms, providing more information on the chip manufacturer's plans for the coming two years. Apart from the current platforms, the roadmap mentions the earlier-announced hexacore Thuban chip, which will form the Leo platform with the RD890 borthbridge and SD850 southbridge. There are also three unannounced platforms: the mainstream counterpart of Leo, codenamed Dorado, as well as Scorpius and Lynx.

It's clear that AMD's upcoming processors will exclusively support DDR3-memory, leaving behind the DDR2 era. The SB850 southbridge is to feature support for SATA 6.0 Gbit/s and USB 3.0, making it unrequired for manufacturers to integrate third-party chips on their motherboards. The RS880P chipset is to replace the current 785G (codename RS880G) in the mainstream segment. This chipset will once again feature an integrated graphics core. Whether it'll have DirectX 11 features or remain at DirectX 10.1 is still unclear.

2011 will bring us the high-end Scorpius and mainstream Lynx platforms. The Scorpius will be combined with a processor featuring the Zambezi codename. The chip will sport at least four physical cores and a DDR3-memory controller. The term AM3r2 suggests that the processor will be launched for a new revision of the AM3-socket. The Lynx platform is based around the Llano processor, AMD's first Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). AMD has claimed this name to indicate processors equipped with an integrated graphics core, making it likely to become the competitor to Intel's 32 nm Clarkdale chip. Llano will be produced at 32 nm and will also be used in notebooks.

Full Article @ Hardware.info

[spikewtb]

doesnt intel plan on having 22nm by 2011?

[Fr0sty]

so scorpius is the new name for the bulldozer platform ?

[untrueparado]

bulldozer sounds better, ready to bulldoze intel. scorpius is just.. eh.. some stars in the sky. i look forward to the fusion mainstream chip, they postponed that thing so many times already. it was set to release in 08/09, then 10, and now 11?

[levathar]

Well, keeping my finger crossed so they can keep with a roadmap now, they failed so many times...

EDIT: Also I would like to know when the substitute of PHII will be released?

[Orac]

i dont think they will close the cap too much on intel until they come up with there own form of hyper threading. this is important as more and more programmes start to scale with cores be it virtual or real cores.

[untrueparado]

Originally Posted by Orac

i dont think they will close the cap too much on intel until they come up with there own form of hyper threading. this is important as more and more programmes start to scale with cores be it virtual or real cores.

not if u got real cores that can outperform 2 virtual cores on the amount of calculations they can do. HT doesnt boost performance all that much, like a good 10-20% when multithreaded fully, and if u can squeeze 130% out of an amd core, its all good. i really hope amd could make a comeback sometime soon, so we get cheaper toys to play with like what they did in the graphics sector.

[Fr0sty]

Originally Posted by untrueparado

not if u got real cores that can outperform 2 virtual cores on the amount of calculations they can do. HT doesnt boost performance all that much, like a good 10-20% when multithreaded fully, and if u can squeeze 130% out of an amd core, its all good. i really hope amd could make a comeback sometime soon, so we get cheaper toys to play with like what they did in the graphics sector.

dont worry amd will comeback... they didnt take their sweet time to deliver a dud on us....

[levathar]

Barcelona was the worst ever expectation thing, and that was 2006... and we waited so much...

HT is a bad memory when I remember WHY it were created.
AMD had REAL cores, intel had VIRTUAL.