AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer

[superrugal]

AMD confirms the AM3+ as a necessity for a Zambezi product:
http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/ne...&id=1282840508



It looks like they had a difficult choice to make and they went with more performance which is ,in the end,a right thing to do.Present AM3 system owners can use their AM3 CPUs in the new boards so not everything is broken compatibility wise. Use the old chip with the new board when AMD launches it and then just slide in the new 8 core Bulldozer when it comes next year.Not the perfect solution for present owners ,but if it is for performance reasons then it's understandable .

Is this an official confirmation or what? There is not AMD official link on that page.

Yeah but this doesn't explain why they didn't launch AM3+ with this years 870/880G/890GX/890FX chipsets.

Perhap they didn't want to unveiling any secret of bulldozer through the chipset & bios.

(I remember that there is an ASUS AM3 motherboard bios update several months before, inside the bios(source code or something else)there's a suspicious 8-core-cpu supply information.