AMD K11, codenamed Bulldozer, is the chip
that is scheduled for early 2009. This will be the chip that should take care
of high end market and co exist with overhyped Fusion.
K11 will have 8 to 16 cores and as far as
we know it will be developed in 45 nanometre, which implies that it might be
quite big chip. Intel should be switching to 32 nanometre at the same time but
we are not sure if AMD can keep up the shrinking game.
The year 2008
is reserved for K10.5, a 45 nanometre shrink of Barcelona / K10 architecture
while K11 is promised to be a new architecture with SSE5 that we mentioned
here.
K11 = Bulldozer, 2009
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