2010 AMD Analyst Day Thread

[generics_user]

All AMD analyst day info gets here so people don't have to follow 3-4 threads

Most important slides, sadly i missed the Desktop and notebook Roadmap someone else up these please and add the next ones







Info:
Ontario/Zacate launch with products in Q1 2011 @ CES 2011
Bulldozer desktop pulled in before Server to Q2 2011
Processors: BD Refresh in 2012 (20core server), 3rd gen BD in 2013
Bobcat refresh in 2012 (2-4 Core, 28nm, improved GPU
Llano replaced by 4-core BD APU in 2012

[informal]

Chekib just said that "yield curve for 32nm just bombed" describing they got to the point when yields got where they want them and APUs and CPUs are ready for mass production(as we can see in BD pull in and LLano H1 launch).

[generics_user]

Process Roadmap:

[ajaidev]

40nm to 28nm TSMC

32nm to 20nm GF

[ajaidev]

[Manicdan]

so no 22nm, and right to 20nm?

[informal]

They reduced the debt by 1.4Bn since last year... In this pace they should be debt free or near that in 2 or 3 years.

[ubuntu83]

40nm to 28nm TSMC

32nm to 20nm GF

28nm is High/k gate first so I think it's Glofo. TSMC's 28nm is gate last like intel (maybe they got some help from intel).

[god_43]

cant watch the webcast until its over? how are you guys watching it?

[ubuntu83]

Somebody who has the slides of Fusion APU's memory management please post them here.

[Periander6]

They reduced the debt by 1.4Bn since last year... In this pace they should be debt free or near that in 2 or 3 years.

A 1.25 Billion dollar check from Intel was mostly responsible for that.

[informal]

A 1.25 Billion dollar check from Intel was mostly responsible for that.

Indeed,but intel got away cheap and AMD provided themselves a way out of manufacturing business without losing the x86 license.I expect them to further lower the debt in 2011,not by the same extent but still lower it a bit compared to 2010.

[FlanK3r]

btw, whats up with stream? :-( It was for 53 minute ago (in program is pause for 30 minutes, not for 50minutes+ :-) )

[informal]

JF-AMD on his blog :

Turbo CORE – We have disclosed that we would include AMD Turbo CORE technology in the past, so this should not be a surprise to anyone. But what is news is the uplift – up to 500MHz with all cores fully utilized. Today’s implementations of boost technology can push up the clock speed of a couple of cores when the others are idle, but with our new version of Turbo CORE you’ll see full core boost, meaning an extra 500MHz across all 16 threads for most workloads.

New Turbo Core rocks . Imagine the TDP headroom on client Zambezi parts if 16 core server part has 500Mhz headroom. 1 Ghz turbo core on 8 BD cores,anyone?

The rest is on the link.

Few more important tid bits:

Product Schedules – This is the most asked question that I get. Today we gave granularity down to the quarter. We expect to launch the client version of “Bulldozer” (code named “Zambezi”) in Q2 2011. The server products (“Interlagos” and “Valencia”) will first begin production in Q2 2011, and we expect to launch them in Q3 2011.

Die size – As a matter of fact, we are able to put 8 total cores in a piece of silicon that is smaller than our current 6-core dies.

L2 and L3 cache – Each module will have a massive 2MB L2 cache for the 2 integer cores to share and you’ll see an 8MB L3 cache shared per die (16MB on the 16-core “Interlagos” processor.)

[FlanK3r]

whau, thats mean, if AMD will need and we as clients will need, launch maybe 5 moduls desktop (pleeeeease :-D)

[Oliverda]

JF-AMD on his blog :

New Turbo Core rocks . Imagine the TDP headroom on client Zambezi parts if 16 core server part has 500Mhz headroom. 1 Ghz turbo core on 8 BD cores,anyone?

The rest is on the link.

Few more important tid bits:

in slides:

[informal]

Thanks Oliverda ,can you share a link for that particular presentation ?

[Oliverda]

Thanks Oliverda ,can you share a link for that particular presentation ?

Sure.

Server Platforms

Client Platforms

[Katzenschleuder]

I think that the overall outlook is very promising.

However I am deeply concerned that so little has been said about investments into software R&D! That is the key for the success of the APU concept, so how can they afford to not say something specific at all?

[superrugal]

bulldozer has 4 pipeline while magny cours has 3

[safan80]

I'm sick of Turbo from both Intel and AMD. I would rather have the higher clocked chip to begin with. On another note BD not until Q3 of 2011 that is good to know.

[ubuntu83]

I'm sick of Turbo from both Intel and AMD. I would rather have the higher clocked chip to begin with. On another note SERVER BD not until Q3 of 2011 that is good to know.

fixed. Client is Q2.

[generics_user]

I'm sick of Turbo from both Intel and AMD. I would rather have the higher clocked chip to begin with. On another note BD not until Q3 of 2011 that is good to know.

desktop is Q2, see second slide in post #1

so much to those "no bd until 2012" posts from a certain banned forum member...

[Oliverda]

I'm sick of Turbo from both Intel and AMD. I would rather have the higher clocked chip to begin with. On another note BD not until Q3 of 2011 that is good to know.

Desktop BD Q2, Server BD Q3

[informal]

desktop is Q2, see second slide in post #1

so much to those "no bd until 2012" posts from a certain banned forum member...

Yeah,he was just "slightly" off,by a half year+