Quote Originally Posted by Mechromancer View Post
Theres some interesting discussion about this topic over at AMDZone. Check it out: http://www.amdzone.com/phpbb3/viewto...st=0&sk=t&sd=a
heheh, Hans is K6-2 with "K6-2 Fresh Boarder" ath AMDZone forum

This is definitely the most important piece of info 'cos it comes from John Fruehe:

Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD

There is nothing to put in jeopardy. I have been consistent with what we have told the press, customers and the public.

Between now and Bulldozer there is not HT/SMT-type technologies in our processor. Can't say what is beyond that because they only let me see up to Bulldozer (I have a ~3-5-year technology horizon for my job).

We have been pretty clear that we believe that a strategy of cores delivers more predictable results than SMT, which can show small performance increases in some workloads and potentially even performance degradation in other workloads. We are pretty transparent on this topic.

If, in the post-bulldozer timeframe enhancements to SMT allow for real scalability and no performance hit, there is no reason that AMD wouldn't consider it. For now, A.) we don't plan it any time soon and B.) really haven't locked down the post-bulldozer products 100% yet.

Bulldozer is a completely new architecture, from the ground up. Any assumptions that you make today are based on your knowledge of existing platforms, not the future platforms.

When you make definitive statements about what bulldozer will/will not be, you run the risk of being wrong. Just as most of the web speculation is wrong as well. I can't comment on the product until we release more data, but I will say that many of the commonly heald beliefs about processors may change in the bulldozer timeframe.