AMD Jumps to 12-core Chip, Skips 8-core Chip Plans

[Capper]

"Hey, we cant get 4 cores right, so lets just skip to 12 cores"

Advanced Micro Devices plans to release processors with 12 cores, which changes its product road map and kills earlier plans to release 8-core chips.
The 12-core processor, code-named Magny-Cours, will be targeted at servers and is due for release in the first half of 2010, according to the company's updated road map announced Wednesday.
The chip will include 12M bytes of L3 cache and support DDR3 RAM, according to the road map.
AMD is jumping from a 6-core chip code-named Istanbul, due for release in the second half of 2009, straight to a 12-core chip the following year, an AMD spokesman said.
Until last month, AMD officials repeated plans to ship the 8-core server chip, code-named Barcelona, in 2009. Montreal has now been replaced by Istanbul, followed by a 12-core product in 2010, the spokesman said
Twelve-core chips will handle larger workloads better than 8-core chips and are easier to manufacture, said Randy Allen, vice president and general manager at AMD, during a conference call.
AMD is also planning to release a 6-core chip code-named Sao Paulo in 2010. The chip will include 6M bytes of L3 cache and support for DDR3 RAM. Sao Paulo chips could meet the need of systems that don't require 12 cores, Allen said.
The new chips will be more power efficient as they will be manufactured using the 45-nanometer process, an upgrade from the 65-nm process currently used to manufacture Barcelona.

AMD Jumps to 12-core Chip, Skips 8-core Chip Plans

[screwballl]

good stuff... now lets hope that Windows 7 can handle multiple cores natively and use core queuing to properly route data

[polobunny]

Montreal got dropped ;__;
And they really plan on doing that when they have a hard time doing a good 4 core product?

[MantaBase]

Originally Posted by Capper

"Hey, we cant get 4 cores right, so lets just skip to 12 cores"

AMD Jumps to 12-core Chip, Skips 8-core Chip Plans

If they had read my PR tactics on the 3/4 core issue, they would have enough money by now to have Intel make their chips for them.

[Capper]

well, maybe you should write up a 9/12 recommendation for them......I'm thinking the way Phenom overclocks, that it'll take 12 cores for AMD to compete with INTEL's Quad cores.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Capper

well, maybe you should write up a 9/12 recommendation for them......I'm thinking the way Phenom overclocks, that it'll take 12 cores for AMD to compete with INTEL's Quad cores.

I think we're pretty much on the same line of thought. You, me, and the rest of the world. :P

[JazzyJake]

Originally Posted by Capper

well, maybe you should write up a 9/12 recommendation for them......I'm thinking the way Phenom overclocks, that it'll take 12 cores for AMD to compete with INTEL's Quad cores.

Hahahaha...
I love being a geek because that's hysterical.

[RAID]

its hard to believe they actually marketed phenom whack edition.... uh, black edition chips. unlocked multiplier! overclock all the way up to 2.8ghz!

[Parker]

Originally Posted by RAID

its hard to believe they actually marketed phenom whack edition.... uh, black edition chips. unlocked multiplier! overclock all the way up to 2.8ghz!

WHOA THATS AWESOME!!! I've never dreamed of 2.8Ghz!!!!

Yea, AMD.... I dunno man, it reminds me of the going and coming back of Steve Jobs.
Except, there never was a Steve Jobs at AMD. Nice going.

[MantaBase]

Originally Posted by Capper

well, maybe you should write up a 9/12 recommendation for them......I'm thinking the way Phenom overclocks, that it'll take 12 cores for AMD to compete with INTEL's Quad cores.

All I would have to do is change the 3's to 9's and the 4's to 12's.

Of course, that assuming only 9 of the 12 cores work.

And I never got paid for may last bit of unused marketing genius.

Manta