Leaked AMD slides claim to reveal CPU timeline and new 'FM1' socket

Summary: Two slides have surfaced which it is claimed detail the company's timeline for the release of upcoming CPUs and APUs (Accelerated Processing Unit, CPU/GPU hybrids).

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for Hardware 2.0 | November 18, 2010 -- 09:20 GMT (01:20 PST)

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Two slides have surfaced which it is claimed detail the company's timeline for the release of upcoming CPUs and APUs (Accelerated Processing Unit, CPU/GPU hybrids).

Origin of the slides is the German website ATI-Forum which claims the slides came from a 'business-related source.'

Note: I don't speak German so I'm relying on Google translation.

If accurate this is excellent news because it means AM3+ compatible 4, 6 and 8 core CPUs based on the Bulldozer architecture and all featuring Turbo Core by the middle of next year, with the 8 core version coming in 95W and 125W TDP.

Nice.

But there's more ...

What we have here is the timeline for the Fusion APUs (the CPU/GPU hybrids. What's interesting here is that this slide introduces a new socket - FM1. This was to be expected given that the silicon features both CPU and GPU. Maintaining AM3+ compatibility couldn't really be expected. If a new socket is in the pipeline I'd expect that we'll start to see samples of these board by early next year.

This slide also backs up the rumor that Fusion has been delayed until the second part of 2011.

Looks like we can expect some really good stuff from AMD next year.

Topics: Processors, Hardware

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RE: Leaked AMD slides claim to reveal CPU timeline and new 'FM1' socket

I like that they put "CONFIDENTIAL - NDA REQUIRED" on all the slides. I would expect a few million signatures at the end of the day on their electronic sign-in sheet at their web site . . .

TAPhilo

18 November, 2010 13:01

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LOL!

@TAPhilo .. [i]"..I like that they put "CONFIDENTIAL - NDA REQUIRED" on all the slides."[/i]

Yeah that was pretty funny. That asides, this is great for AMD (..and hopefully for us .. we, the consumer). The entire idea of porting traditional CPU workloads *and* graphics processing from a single socket is brilliant.

I get the distinct feeling though, that m/b designs will have to either increase I/O bus widths to accommodate these chips or channel the standard cpu throughput and dedicated graphics intensive tasks on separate buses.

..needless to say, i will be watching developments closely.
;)

thx-1138_
19 November, 2010 14:37

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RE: Leaked AMD slides claim to reveal CPU timeline and new 'FM1' socket

Looks very nice. I might upgrade to an 8 core from my current tri core. Provided that thy keep DDR2 support. Otherwise I'm going to go to a 6 core phenom ll.