AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

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Interesting read
Anyway, BullDozer is confirmed to have lower single threaded int performance compared to K10.
But multi-threaded and ILP apps would be very beneficial.
Hopefully AMD could fuse GPU into BullDozer module concept. Throw the FPU load to GPU, so that AMD could add more performance on int with CPU transistors

I wouldn't necessarily say that the integer comment is correct. For instance, MC has 12 cores, Interlagos has 16 cores. 33% more cores but more than 33% greater performance. That sounds like faster to me.

That is the whole idea of the architecture, flexibility for multiple designs. Not necessarily sure that the FPU goes by the wayside, at least not until the software situation changes. There will still be regular applications that need to access floating point for a cycle or two, and FPU will be necessary for that. However, I would expect, that over time, a GPU can plug into the architecture the same way as a bulldozer module.