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Yes and that was already known for quite some time. AMD changed plans. The roadmap from Dresdenboy's blog is simply outdated.

The blue text is Dresdenboy's guesses.
Sure that there are big changes, really? Piledriver is still a moderately enhanced Bulldozer, not an entirely new generation one.

Remember the Bulldozer / enhanced BD and BD Next Generation names, from the Bulldozer introduction slides?

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That's basically BDv1, BDv2 and BDv3, or if you want to use the fancy codenames: Bulldozer, Piledriver and Steamroller.

I remembered this slide, but thought the Enhanced one is bdver1.1, or something like that...
(I'm using the bdverX format, instead of BDvX, because the former is used in some include files for a certain compiler.)

Lots of names for the same .. marketing at its best.

Well, they are not entirely the same... Indeed bdver3(?), that one seems to be much more than some little enhancements.

Don't forget that these are just the names for the core architeture, the real chips have then names, too. Trinity for the APU with Piledrivercores, etc. etc.

I won't forget, I promise! (I know, of course.)