Bulldozer & Bobcat of New AMD Platform

After Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) prepares to present a platform called Fusion chips and microprocessors Llano, AMD preparing for 2010 and 2011 with several new platforms. Outlined in the roadmap, AMD plans to develop brand-new platform which of them is, Bulldozer and Bobcat.

Bulldozer is the next generation of AMD CPU, this chip is the successor of the K10 and is expected to be available in the year 2011. While Bobcat is a low-power processor that will be designed to compete with Intel Atom MID market and CE.

However, there is no more detailed explanation about the specifications of the Bulldozer and Bobcat who became the latest weapon for companies based in California, United States it.

In the meantime, disclosed Rick Bergman, Senior VP and General Manager of AMD, there is no change in the launch of the new platform will be carried by AMD, remained middle of next year. If anything changes, usually faster than the original schedule. Thus the Softpedia reported on Friday (13/11/2009).

In AMD's roadmap in 2010 there are four products that will be presented, namely the Danube and the Nile in the mobile segment, and the Leo and Dorado in the desktop segment. AMD to ensure the chip maker will improve the performance of mobile products it, increasing battery life and enable support for DirectCompute and OpenCL, and DirectX 11.

Danube will include quad-core processor 45nm, while the Nile will offer dual-core processor 45nm, which is designed for ultra-thin notebooks.

On the server side, AMD will release a platform Maranello with Opteron 6000 series, which brings 8-core and 12-core, while the code-named Magny-Cours is designed for server two and four socket.