AMD began speaking (very little) about their Bobcat core at their financial analyst day yesterday. This has been in the cards for what seems like forever - do a Google search and/or look at Wikipedia – but it now appears scheduled to appear in 2011.
See slide 8 in Chuck Moore’s presentation here. I used to work with him quite a long time ago at IBM…great guy. Bobcat is targeting under a watt while delivering 90% of today’s mainstream performance in less than half the silicon area. I am not sure what that last bit is relative to, but it raises a red flag as today’s mainstream x86 designs are typically enormous. Anyway, the design is synthesizable so now process speculation will be a key topic at the lunch table. I doubt they will – or can – license it by the way.
EE Times has an article and another good one is at Bright Side of News.
Personally, I think this is great for ARM – I only wish it were sooner. It adds a whole new set of complex variables that will reduce the concentration of market power, which is a good thing for the consumer. Meanwhile the ARM Partnership marches on faster than ever…
This highlights the power of the IP business model. If two vendors are good for diversity, creativity, innovation and competition – and AMD customers want them to survive for very good reasons – then 10+ vendors are fantastic.
Gotta run… life gets more exciting every day!
i believe in amd processors.
amd is best and cheapest processors.
By: chaman ram on December 11, 2009
at 3:09 PM
i use amd athlon processor and i find its a very fast processor in lowest price
By: chaman ram on December 11, 2009
at 3:12 PM