14 DAY TRIAL // Even though AMD had to delay the launch of its desktop Zambezi FX-Series processors based on the Bulldozer architecture until September, the company is still on-track to ship the sixteen-core Interlagos server CPU in the third quarter of the year.
This news was made public by Phil Huges, an AMD spokesman, on Thursday.
"We are still on track to ship [AMD Opteron code-named] Interlagos in Q3. We have not provided guidance to date on when specific models such as HE or SE will ship," said the company rep who was quoted by Xbit Labs.
AMD's Interlagos processors are based on the company's high-performance Bulldozer architecture and will have either 12 or 16 processing cores, while also featuring a series of improvements that should increase their performance when compared with the current Opteron 6100-series CPUs.
The chips will also feature support for AMD's Turbo Core dynamic overclocking technology and come with advanced power saving technologies.
Interlagos CPUs features a multi-chip design (the processor is built by joining together two six or eight core Valencia dies) and are compatible with the existing G34 socket.
The AMD spokesman refused to talk about Valencia's launch, so we don't know if these chips will arrive in Q3 2011 or if they have been also delayed.
Just a few days ago, AMD confirmed the rumors that stated the company plans to postpone the launch of the Zambezi FX-series desktop processors.
These were expected to debut at the beginning of June, but AMD is now planning to launch them at the end of the summer, in August or September. Just yesterday, another AMD spokesman said that the delay was caused by a strategic decision.
One of the first machines to include the new Interlagos CPUs will be built by Cray and is expected to arrive in the second half of this year. The XK6 pairs AMD's multi-core processors with Nvidia's Tesla 2000-series compute boards.