14 DAY TRIAL // The rumors regarding AMD's plans to introduce four new FX-series processors in the fourth quarter of this year were apparently confirmed by a new company desktop CPU roadmap that was leaked a short while ago.
The roadmap doesn't provide too many details about these processors, but it does reveal that the chips will make their appearance in the fourth quarter of this year.
According to the same roadmap, two of the four CPUs will use an eight-core design, while the other two pack six and four processing cores, respectively.
All of these will feature improved clocks speeds compared to AMD's previous models, support for the Turbo Core 2.0 technology and DDR3-1866MHz memory and will fit inside the same thermal envelope as their predecessors.
The first batch of desktop Bulldozer processors that AMD is supposed to make official at the beginning of June is also comprised of four processors featuring between four and eight CPU cores.
AMD's fastest model of the four is called the FX-8130P, has a base frequency of 3.8GHz and can reach up to 4.2GHz when in Turbo mode.
The CPU also features 8MB of Level 2 and 8MB of Level 3 cache memory, has an unlocked multiplier, and, as we revealed just the last week, its 1000-unit price has been set at $320 US.
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.
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. (via Donanim Haber)
