AMD Ships First "Interlagos" CPUs based on Bulldozer

[mongoled]

Source: http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-ships-first-interlagos-cpus-based-on-bulldozer/13503.html

SUNNYVALE, Calif. Sept. 7, 2011 Today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced revenue shipments of the first processors based on its new x86 “Bulldozer” architecture

“This is a monumental moment for the industry as this first ‘Bulldozer’ core represents the beginning of unprecedented performance scaling for x86 CPUs,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Products Group. "The flexible new ‘Bulldozer’ architecture will give Web and datacenter customers the scalability they need to handle emerging cloud and virtualization workloads.”

So we will see something soon with regards to benchmarks, and what about NDA????

[PatRaceTin]

interesting

[mongoled]

Well, not interesting enough, peeps are posting in the negative news threads with regards to Bulldozer



Thought this would be good news??

[mongoled]

Got double posted!

[Chrono Detector]

I hope this is true because AMD has made us wait LONG enough for Bulldozer to arrive. Hopefully we will see reviews soon.

[JumpingJack]

The customary hell freezing over:

[SKYMTL]

Great news but this begs the question: if they're shipped, where did they go and when will they be available? I know plenty of folders who are eagerly awaiting Interlagos.

[RussC]

Well, I guess they were correct in there statement in the CC, "well ship BD this qtr for revenue". I just wish it was Zambezi.

RussC

[hokiealumnus]

JF-AMD said:

Interlagos is shipping for revenue now, launch is in Q4. We have not made any statements on the client side, do not imply anything from this.

The only thing you should note is that the design is now through silicon validation and in the fab for manufacturing. More to come this evening when I get out of all of my meetings.

Yes, I'm a glutton for punishment subscribing to that thread.

[STaRGaZeR]

The customary hell freezing over:

I was like:

[Evantaur]

I was like:

you stole my face!

[v0dka]

From the same article

The 8-core desktop version codenamed Zambezi is still slated for announcement on September 17th.

Read more: http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-ship...#ixzz1XI2W1yYs

[god_43]

JF-AMD said:



Yes, I'm a glutton for punishment subscribing to that thread.

why doesn't jf-amd post here anymore? lol was he banned or something. i thought we were the biggest enthusiast site on this planet?

[EniGmA1987]

... He does post? ...

[Mats]

why doesn't jf-amd post here anymore?

Exactly, it's been like what, one hour? What's the man doing? Work? Have a life?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post4944613

[Lanek]

why doesn't jf-amd post here anymore? lol was he banned or something. i thought we were the biggest enthusiast site on this planet?

I think he's just tired of us ..... let#s be honest we have made all our possible for get him angry ...

[Glow9]

Just take what he says with a grain of salt. You won't be dissapointed that way, AMD's a for profit corporation last time I checked not everything they say is 100% on the money, I'm sure there is quite a lot of bureaucracy and do we don't know where he is within that totem pole.
I'm still bummed I didn't have bulldozer to install on my b-day in June.

[god_43]

Exactly, it's been like what, one hour? What's the man doing? Work? Have a life?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post4944613

lol oops, nm then, its just i never see him in the news room any more...lol forgot about the amd room.

[K404]

Never mind Glow9, you might not have had it for your birthday, but if September 17th is accurate, that's MY birthday.... AMD hint hint

[zanzabar]

amd always ships server parts 1st, they make more money, are the target market, have more demand, and run lower clocks so they dont need the silicon to be as good so long as they are reliable.

[Lanek]

Look Cray and other .. they have all choose AMD Orochi ( Interlagos ) for their offer since 3months ..........

[SKYMTL]

Look Cray and other .. they have all choose AMD Orochi ( Interlagos ) for their offer since 3months ..........

I was under the impression that Cray was using Interlagos due to AMD's shared development strategy with Cray's Gemini system interconnect.

[qcmadness]

I was under the impression that Cray was using Interlagos due to AMD's shared development strategy with Cray's Gemini system interconnect.

imo, cray could get opterons far cheaper than we think.

[STaRGaZeR]

Never mind Glow9, you might not have had it for your birthday, but if September 17th is accurate, that's MY birthday.... AMD hint hint

Hey, what about April 17th? Do you guys think AMD will launch BD before that?

[highoctane]

amd always ships server parts 1st, they make more money, are the target market, have more demand, and run lower clocks so they dont need the silicon to be as good so long as they are reliable.

I'm not so sure on the having more demand part, AMD managed like 5.5% server market share for the quarter, thats almost like being via in the x86 market. I'm guessing BD will most likely give a much needed product boost but it seems AMD have a long road to travel to really get back into todays server market.

While the clock speeds don't need to be as high in general for the servers they do need to be much more reliable/stable than desktop parts. Your personal pc crashes you just shut it down reboot it, a small office server crashes the company pretty much shuts down and everyone is on coffee break not to mention data integrity.