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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
AMD had a little show and tell with Asian journalists to go along with those new Phenom II and Athlon II chips it just released, and it unveiled some of its next-gen plans along the way. In the short term, it seems like the plan is to launch the 45nm Leo platform we've listened about later this year to better compare with Intel's 32nm Clarkdale parts, and then to push ahead to 32nm in 2011 with the Scorpius platform, which will showcase a Bulldozer CPU called Zambezi with up to 8 cores and a "next-generation discrete graphics solution." Mid-performance desktops will get some "next-generation integrated graphics" of their own this year on the Dorado platform, while 2011 will see the Lynx platform release with the long-delayed Fusion chip. (We were first supposed to see Fusion chips in late 2008, remember?) Fusion is also still on vapor-y track for laptops with scheduled 2011 launch of the previously-leaked Sabine architecture, but AMD also tipped the new Brazos Fusion-based platform power-driven by the Ontario APU, which is "optimized for new form factors" -- potentially MID-sized, but we won’t be sure. Phew, that's a lot of codenames -- we'd say we can't hang around, but we're clearly going to have to watch how AMD performs.
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