14 DAY TRIAL // AMD has been going through fairly interesting times lately, and it seems that its strategy concerning its upcoming series of processors may involve quite a bit of haste, or so says a recent report.
Those keeping track of the happenings on the processor and chipset market will have learned of a couple of odd occurrences or rumors.
For one, Intel discovered a flaw in its 6-Series Cougar point chipset, which leads to degradation of SATA 3.0 Gbps ports.
This led to a mass recall of motherboards and notebooks, leaving a vacuum of sorts that AMD might fill, at least to some extent.
Certain rumors also have AMD supposedly planning on killing the Phenom, Athlon, Sempron and Turion brands, while others say the chip maker is set to suffer from weaker video card sales, much like NVIDIA.
Now, X-bit Labs has come out and said some things on the Sunnyvale, California-based company's plans for the future, the more or less immediate future that is.
Apparently, Advanced Micro Devices has decided on a strategy based on speed and plans to very quickly move all its desktop processor lines to 32nm.
This means that the rate at which new Bulldozer, Llano and Brazos products come out may turn out to be faster than expected.
To be more specific, by the time 2012 comes around the AM3+ form factor (particularly the FX chip family) will be going strong already, accounting for about 20% of all AMD processors. The FX are based on the Bulldozer architecture.
Meanwhile, 70% will probably be Llano APUs (accelerated processing units), while the remaining 10% will be Brazos-based units using FT1 ball-grid-array.
All in all, by the time the second quarter of 2012 comes about, more or less every AMD chip out there will be built on the 32nm manufacturing process. Needless to say, the company itself did not comment on the report in any way.