AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer

[Opteron146]

This really is getting funny.

Now we have a 3rd site, at least capable of producing a 100% logic sentence.

However there is a lot of strange stuff in the rest of the article.

Additionally to the PCIe error, they compare Bulldozer to a "Turbo diesel" with low RPM (= lowclock speed). They should read Anand's review with the information on the deeper pipelines. These will secure higher clocks ... not low ones.

To LGA:
If it would be LGA, then it wouldnt be called AM3+

To the Northbridge:
Well, the rest is basically I/O (Hypertransport, and the XBAR switch Logic). I would prefer to use the Intel term in that case: Uncore (everything, which is not in a Module in AMD's case )

To the reason of the confusion:
Seems to me like AMD is to blame ... the telephone conference was probably misunderstandable. If it would be compatible they should have said so. The AMD officials probably said something like "not 100% compatible", and then the rest was speculation ...