14 DAY TRIAL // An AMD Bulldozer document that made its appearance online a short while ago revealed the names of four new FX-series processors based on the Zambezi architecture which are expected to reach retail in September 2011.
The CPUs feature eight, six and four processing cores and all the models are expected to enter mass production in August 2011.
Two of these chips, the FX-8150 and FX-8100, feature an eight-core design and have 8MB of Level 2 and 8MB of Level 3 cache memory, while the other two chips, the FX-6100 and FX-4100, packs six and, respectively four, processing cores.
Just as the FX-series CPUs that are expected to make their debut in June, these also come with an unlocked multiplier and support DDR3 memory with a maximum frequency of 1866MHz as well as AMD's Turbo Core 2.0 technology.
Their clock speeds aren't yet known, but judging by AMD's naming scheme, the FX-8150 should be clocked higher than the 3.8GHz FX-8130P, while the other CPUs are expected to be slower than their soon to be released counterparts.
Rumors regarding AMD's plans to launch a new series of Bulldozer processors in the second half of the year have been circulating around the Web for quite some time, but all of these pointed to a fourth quarter release.
Bulldozer is the name of AMD's next-generation high-performance architecture which will be based on a modular design that was developed in order to eliminate the redundancies found in multi-core architectures.
What we don't know right now is when the first FX-series processors will be available in retail as recent reports stated that AMD is having difficulties keeping up with its release schedule, making some motherboard manufacturers think about postponing the launch of their 900-series AM3+ boards.
However, AMD is still expected to launch its first Bulldozer processors in the first half of June, but we might be looking at a paper launch. (via Zol.com.cn)
