Advanced Micro Devices has been relatively open in terms of its technology and platform roadmap, however, the firm is extremely tight-lipped about specifications or features of concrete products. Nevertheless, as web-site has published details concerning AMD’s quad-core processors be released within the next two years.

According to a part of a slide published at HKEPC web-site, they are code-named Deerhound, Greyhound, Zamora and Cadiz quad-core processors in AMD’s roadmap. Except the Greyhound, the chips are intended for dual-processor or multi-processor server as well as workstation markets.

News source: X-bit labs


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(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by El Sid on 04 May 2006 - 00:22
They're looking like they're gonna be way behind Intel for releases which isn't a wise move, but none the less I don't want a half-complete processor.

The trouble AMD will face with marketing is that by the time they release their processors 6 months to a year after Intel, everyone will have bought Intel because they didn't want to fall behind the pack to have the latest technology processor-wise.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by macrosslover on 04 May 2006 - 07:43
but who actually feels that way? who actually says OMG i only have pentium 4 and pentium 5 is the latest omg i gotta have it. Except for hardcore users like us, the average consumer really doesn't care and most companies are upgrading on a timetable anyway so they also don't feel that emotion much either.

While generally it isn't good to be "behind" the technology of your competitor in this day, there's no way of seeing how these chips actually compete against each other until they are actually released.
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by Firefawx on 04 May 2006 - 07:46
But these clearly aren't intended for the average user. If you require this kind of processor in your server, clearly you're in a position to demand the latest and greatest.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by sunbiz_3000 on 04 May 2006 - 05:01
A technical comparison between Intel's next-gen processor architecture with AMD's current Opterton/Athlon64 prcessor design. A very interesting read...

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2748
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by MrCobra on 04 May 2006 - 07:17
To compare next-gen tech with current tech is NOT a fair comparison. Just as it wasn't fair to compare the then next-gen A64 to the current P4. People should wait until each are next-gen and compare those. Pathetic.
Quote this comment #2.2 Posted by Beastage on 04 May 2006 - 09:12
But that doesn't happen in real life... the only thing we can check is how fast any company adapt and evolve their product line, AMD made the big move 2 years ago, now its Intel's turn.

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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by protias on 04 May 2006 - 15:04
so what if AMD is behind on Intel when stuff gets released. this "can" mean the stuff AMD releases is better than Intel. but then again, what do i know, i'm only and avid gamer and network admin
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by SyntheticDarkness on 04 May 2006 - 19:33
True, it'd be cool if you where a marketer or an engineer at AMD
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by tiwaris on 04 May 2006 - 16:17
The deafening silence that AMD has followed in the recent past about their future marchitecture leads to two conclusions.

1. They do not have an answer to intel's next gen products like Conroe, they are having problems with moving to 65nm architecture, the move to DDR2 is not giving them any signficant performance improvement even with 800 MHz bus. Blah blah...

2. AMD has a solid answer but they are not yet ready with their toy.

I sincerely hope that 2nd conclusion is true.
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