AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer

[madcho]

Am I the only one who noted that Anandtech wrote "Bulldozer CPUs will be AMD’s first 32nm processors manufactured at GlobalFoundries."

That can't be right, or have Bulldozer been pushed ahead of Llano?

45nm BD was not on any roadmap. So i guess it's seem so normal to us, that it's not to be noticed.

[Oliverda]

45nm BD was not on any roadmap. So i guess it's seem so normal to us, that it's not to be noticed.

Earlier JF said that there was a plan for a 45nm BD with DDR2 support which should have come in ~2009.

[-Boris-]

Earlier JF said that there was a plan for a 45nm BD with DDR2 support which should have come in ~2009.

Yes, BD was originally planned to been launched at 45nm, a while after Phenom II. I don't know the reason to the delay, but AMD said they would use the extra time to enhance Bulldozer even more. Could be that they learned the importance of having a node capable of a large chip before manufacturing it, since they released Agena on a node too early. Just like GTX 280 and GTX 480 from nVidia.