Quote Originally Posted by sviola View Post
From what I read, the process is still not matured enough to put out a new architecture on it (I read somewhere that there might be yeald issues with it), but these might be fake rumors.

By the looks of it, BD needed the smaller process to allow for higher clocks with the same TDP (it would have been bad for them to release BD, with these clocks on 45nm and have a TDP of 150+, specially on a marketed-less-power-the-better environment).
The rumors of yields might be correct, and if they are those rumors revolve around Llano.

Bulldozer was designed specifically for power efficiency, and efficiency in die space. Or what most people on XS would call it performance/watt, the architecture has high clocks cause it was designed this way. I am quite sure AMD would've gone down the route of higher IPC/lower clocks if that would've been more beneficial.

Now die space, we can call that performance/mm2. The whole die seems to take up LOTS of space, but one Bulldozer module surely is quite small even for 32nm.