March 15, 2011 weblog
AMD's Bulldozer architecture to battle Intel's Core i7

(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- AMD's upcoming four-, six- and eight-core processors, code name Zambezi, is based on its Bulldozer architecture and will target Intel鈥檚 flagship 9000 series six-core desktop CPU鈥檚. AMD's Zambezi processors will feature AMD's TurboCore 2.0 technology and will be listed under their FX line-up.
At present AMD is not able to compete in performance against Intel鈥檚 Core i7 series 鈥淪andy Bridge鈥 but aims to go to battle with its next generation Bulldozer-chips.
According to report from X-bit Labs, leaked AMD documents reveal that Zambezi processors offer similar capabilities to Intel鈥檚 Core i7 Sandy Bridge processors. The report also states that AMD鈥檚 Zambezi features more over-clocked cores, dual graphics, OpenCL and GPU capabilities. This makes Zambezi more of an integrated graphics chip than a desktop CPU.
AMD鈥檚 Zambezi chip will feature eight processing engines with its cores packed into four modules. The Bulldozer architecture includes two integer units, along with one floating-point unit and two threads on separate integer units instead of the single-core solution.

Because of Intel鈥檚 manufacturing processing error discovered in their Series 6 Sandy Bridge Support chipsets, AMD hopes to gain some market share utilizing their Bulldozer micro-architecture.
According to IDC鈥檚 latest estimates, Intel holds an 80.8 percent share of the PC processor market in the fourth quarter which is a 0.4 percent increase. AMD, on the other hand, only holds a market share of 19.9 percent and is down 0.4 percent.
AMD plans to come out fighting by leveraging their Zambezi processors utilizing their Bulldozer architecture. An AMD spokesperson told CRN, on Monday, that their Zambezi CPU carrying the FX brand is planned to be introduced in Q2 of this year.
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