14 DAY TRIAL // While AMD might not be ready yet to announce a release date for its next-generation Bulldozer processors, the company is more than willing to talk about these CPUs at the Hot Chips 2011 symposium, where it will disclose more details about its upcoming architecture.
According to the conference program, the presentation is entitled “Perf Power-Efficient Bulldozer-Core x86-64 Server, WS & Desktop Procs,” and is scheduled to take place on Friday, August 19.
Sadly, apart from the tile, we don't know anything about the information that is going to be presented during AMD's keynote.
Bulldozer is AMD's next-generation high-performance CPU architecture that was designed from the ground up in order to eliminate some of the redundancies that come with traditional multi-core designs.
As a result, the chip uses a modular construction, each module being comprised of two 128-bit FMA floating point units, which can be combined into one 256-bit FPU, two integer cores with four pipelines each, and as much as 2048KB of L2 cache.
Just like the 8MB of L3 cache, the Level 2 memory will also be shared between the modules.
All the consumer chips will support AMD's Turbo Core technology, offer native DDR3-1866 memory support, and one or more Hyper Transport 3.1 links, while Opteron 6200-series CPUs will also pack a quad-channel memory controller.
Server processors will be split into two product families, Valencia and Interlagos, the first packing a six or eight core design while the latter can feature 12 or 16 processing cores.
From the information that is available at this point in time, we know that AMD's initial Opteron server processor lineup will include at least four processors, two of these featuring a 16 cores, one packing 12 computing cores, while the last one is an eight-core chip.
Their speed will range between 2.1 and 2.8 GHz, while maximum Turbo Core frequencies can reach 3.9GHz, depending on the chip.
The launch date of the first Bulldozer processors is not yet known, but rumors suggest these should arrive in September or October of this year. (via Nordic Hardware)