14 DAY TRIAL // In late summer AMD is expected to launch its first processors built on the Bulldozer architecture, but these models will have a limited shelf life as the company wants to replace them in just six months time with faster CPUs based on the same core.
This information was brought to light by a leaked AMD slide which was uncovered by the Donanim Haber website.
Interestingly enough, the names of the four Zambezi FX processors that the company wants to launch in Q3 of 2011, are different from those mentioned by all previous leaks and these now use a simpler naming scheme.
According to the same slide, soon after the introduction of the FX-8150, FX-8100, FX-6100 and FX-4100, in the fourth quarter of 2011 to be more precise, AMD will unveil four new FX-series processors that will feature even higher base clock speeds.
However, these will retain the TDP of their predecessors as well as their unlocked multiplier and Turbo Core support.
Bulldozer is the code-name given to AMD's upcoming high-performance architecture that has been in development for over four years now.
Unlike the company's previous designs, Bulldozer will use a new approach that relies on a modular architecture. Each module includes two processing cores, as well as other components, and these can be paired together to form CPUs with up to eight computing cores.
The first chips built on this architecture were expected to arrive in June and targeted the desktop market, but it now seems like AMD is having troubles with achieving the desired clock speeds.
As a result, the company officially announced that the first Zambezi FX CPUs won't arrive until August or September of 2011.
The delay won't affect the Opteron 6200 processors based on the Interlagos design, which pairs together two CPU dies in the same packaging to form 12-core and 16-core Bulldozer chips for the server market.
