AMD Re-Schedules Bulldozer Processors to 2011
This is definitely not good news if you are an AMD fan or just someone hoping that AMD can stay competitive with Intel to keep prices down. According to the road-map, it looks like AMD will be riding the 45nm wave for their CPUs through 2010 until these chips featuring its new micro-architecture. This means that AMD will be at least 1.5 years behind Intel in getting 32nm products to the market. However, there are a lot of promises in store for these new chips including a complete redesign which will bring about considerably higher performance and the SSE5 instruction set. I just hope I can wait that long to get some great chips. I’ll take an Istanbul 6 core chip to hold off though!
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I’m actually not worried. AMD may be coming late to the party but Bulldozers performance will speak for itself no matter when it drops.
We’re at the point where new desktop processors in the consumer market don’t really matter. Therefore, it’s the server and netbook markets that have profit potential.
AMD isn’t even in the netbook race (that pretty much exclusively a Nano vs Atom battle). And their new line-up outperforms Intel in the server market. Given similar prices (not necessarily lower ones), system administrators will (I believe) go with AMD just because a few dollars doesn’t compete with server uptime and performance.
Given the current company split (between fab and design), I don’t think AMD has any real problems.