"With the Bulldozer cores (which are not called the K9 generation, by the way, perhaps because AMD does not want any chip to be affiliated with a dog), AMD is being a little more clever."


Perhaps it's becasue AMd has a K10 already - K9 does not make much sense,11 maybe.


"As you can see in the diagram, the Bulldozer module has a shared floating point scheduler and two 128-bit floating point units, which debuted with the quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron 2200s and 8200s two years ago. "


22xx and 82xx are dual core 90nm,Barselona was up to 835xx/235xx