AMD: Bulldozer taped out

[nyker96]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...apes_Out_First_Bulldozer_Microprocessors.html

this does look like good news.

 

[jvroig]

Well, news of the tape out is better than no news. I've always been expecting Bulldozer to be available more or less at Q4 2011.

Now that we've officially gotten over the tape out, I hope in the next few months we get more and more "leaked" info about Bulldozer.

 

[BD231]

I really like the way AMD is always pushing more cores even though as of late it's only a more sure fire way for them to keep up with Intel. Soon enough we'll have 20, 40, 50 core processors and mhz will become a thing of the past.

If x86 hardware performance is ever going to surpass the demands of software this is certainly the way it needs to be done. Just wish they'd move it along already.

 

[IntelUser2000]

You are better off with betting on Larrabee derivatives then. You got lots of cores there.

I'm preferring heterogenous cores of few large+lots of small though.

 

[JFAMD]

You'll get more bulldozer info at the end of august after hot chips is over; there will be disclosures there.

 

[Lonyo]

You are better off with betting on Larrabee derivatives then. You got lots of cores there.

I'm preferring heterogenous cores of few large+lots of small though.

Yeah, it's just a shame that AMD is a little behind in both areas.
Their CPU cores are not as good as Intels, and their GPU isn't as good at general purpose as NV, although arguably they are still far ahead of Intel and NV when it comes to heterogenous processors because, well, they can make chips that can do both decently, while Intel and NV can't.

It will certainly be interesting to see what we end up with in the future, but based on current levels, AMD may be able to do well, although Intel will obviously catch on on the non-CPU side by the time it's really ramping up.

 

[MegaWorks]

I can't wait for the bench results, hoping to be a kick a$$ chip!