AMD 2011 Roadmap, Leaked

A couple of leaked AMD roadmaps have surfaced over in Japan, hinting at what the semiconductor giant will have to offer in the coming years.

Leaked AMD roadmaps plot route to 2011 Fusion



A couple of leaked AMD roadmaps have surfaced over in Japan, hinting at what the semiconductor giant will have to offer in the coming years.

In terms of desktop platforms, it looks as though AMD won't be able to deliver 32nm CPUs until 2011 - putting it roughly a year behind rival Intel, who plans to introduce 32nm parts in the first quarter of 2010.

Looking at the coming year, AMD's challenger in the performance stakes will be the upcoming hexa-core Thuban processor, apparently clocked at 2.8GHz and coupled with an RD890+SB8xx chipset. In the mainstream space, 45nm Athlon and Phenom processors with up to four cores will hope to be more competitive when paired with the 800-series chipset.

In terms of graphics, AMD's Evergreen series - already productised in part as the Radeon HD 5800 series - will remain prevalent throughout the year, and won't be superseded by a newer architecture until 2011.

Indeed, it isn't until 2011 that AMD's desktop roadmap begins to get interesting. That's the year in which we'll see Scorpius, a next-gen platform making use of the 32nm Zambezi processor - which, we can only hope, is based on the long-awaited Bulldozer core, successor to the K10 architecture...

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