14 DAY TRIAL // Slated for an early June launch, AMD's Zambezi FX family of CPUs, based on the Bulldozer architecture, is expected to gain four additional members, that pack between four and eight processing cores, at the beginning of Q4 2011.
Initially, the company will launch just four models based on the Zambezi core, including two eight-core processors, dubbed the FX-8130P and FX-8110.
These will be accompanied by the FX-6110 and FX-4110 chips that pack six and four cores, respectively.
Their TDPs are rated at 95W or 125W and all pack an integrated dual-channel memory controller which supports DDR3 1866MHz DIMMs, feature Turbo Core support and are Black Edition parts, meaning they come with an unlocked multiplier.
In early Q4 2011, these first Bulldozer CPUs will be joined by four other Zambezi FX processors and Donanim Haber states that the release will closely resemble the initial launch, since AMD plans to introduce two eight-core, one six-core, and one quad-core processor.
Sadly, no other specifications are available at this time, but these CPUs will most probably feature improved operating frequencies to counter Intel's Sandy Bridge-E chips that are also expected to arrive in Q4 2011.
Bulldozer is the name of AMD's upcoming high-performance architecture, and this will spawn three different CPU families: Zambezi for desktop users, Valencia for entry and mid-range servers and Interlagos for the HPC environment.
All will, however, share the same architecture that features a modular design approach, each module being comprised of two 128-bit FMA floating point units, which can be combined into one 256-bit FPU, two integer cores, with four pipelines each and as much as 2048KB of L2 cache.
An official release date wasn't made public by AMD, but rumors seem to suggest that the CPUs will become available on June 11 (some sources even say June 7).