AMD's next-generation processor architecture will be then called Bulldozer. When AMD released their new architecture, it will be several major changes compared to today's Phenom family and in particular we see how AMD are investing heavily in multi-thread performance, and also add the calculation data on our graphics chips. Now AMD is said to aim for a production startup of the first Bulldozer CPUs in first half of 2010.

Should the data line, it could mean that AMD get their new processors on the market faster than we expected, which processor manufacturer actually would have needed.

The first processor based on the Bulldozer architecture will be named Zambezi and is manufactured with new 32 nanometer SOI high-k technology. The processor is equipped with up to eight cores / calculation circuits and the use of both shared L2 and L3 caches. The top model has eight cores, but with true quad-core will double units for integer architecture is expected to provide up to 80 percent performance increase in multi-threaded applications

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