14 DAY TRIAL // AMD's Fusion architecture has already shown its prowess, what with having already sold one million APUs, but it seems that a recent report regarding the company's plans for the Bulldozer may not have been not interpreted correctly.
As end-users know, Advanced Micro Devices finally got serious on the Fusion market at the start of the month.
As such, what consumers are now looking forward to is the next collections of products, those known as Llano and Bulldozer.
Not too long ago, a report emerged which made it sound as though Bulldozer products had been delayed, while Llano chips were said to be on track for Q2 release.
"We have entered a new phase with our 32nm ramp and are now sampling thousands of Llano products to a wide variety of OEMs and ODMs as they prepare for production in Q2," were the words of Thomas Seifert, interim chief executive officer of AMD.
This quote was accompanied by the implication that Bulldozer had been delayed and would come after Llano.
Now, AMD's John Fruehe, the director of product marketing for server, embedded and FireStream products, decided to clarify things.
"The product is not delayed, Anton should not have used the "delay" word in his story because that is not true," he said, according to a report by X-Bit Labs.
Basically, the schedules haven't really changed and the second quarter of 2011 is still the time of arrival for Bulldozer client products.
Meanwhile, server products are slated for mass availability in the third quarter of the ongoing year.
As before, it is impossible to know for sure exactly when the official releases will be made, but unofficial reports did touch upon this subject as far back as November, 2011.
Bulldozer is expected to debut this April, while the Llano desktop and mobile APUs (accelerated processing units) will be launched this July, though this would place it in Q3.