Monday, November 6th 2006
AMD Roadmap for 2006/2007
Things to look most forward to are located on the top of the list: namely Agena and Kuma. Agena will be AMD's top offering introduced in 3Q07. The CPU will be quad core; it is projected to have a TDP of 125W. Interestingly, it will use both L2 and L3 cache (2MB each). Clock speeds range from 2.7 to 2.9 GHz. Lastly, the CPU sports a 4000MHz Hypertransport bus and fits into the AM2+ socket.
Kuma will be AMD's dual core processor introduced in 3Q07. Similarly to Agena, it will feature both L2 and L3 cache.
Another one of AMD's CPUs, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, will be announced this month. It is likely to be the last and greatest CPU for socket AM2, boasting a frequency of 3 GHz.
Some CPUs will also be phased out, the X2 4600, X2 4200 and X2 3800 will stop being produced in 2Q07.
So will AMD regain the performance crown? Intel will introduce their Quad Core CPU very soon compared to AMD, so we will have to wait a while before the battle for performance king takes place.
9 Comments on AMD Roadmap for 2006/2007
(Strange of them, especially after dropping it back to 512k per core (totalling 1mb between 2 cores present) on the series that came after mine (currently out))
:)
* Will wonders NEVER cease...
APK
I hate the market right now, way too unstable. I have a dual core machine, 2 gigs of ram, will probably upgrade my video card in a few months. thats that. this race for 65nm and quad core is not worth the time and effort these companies are putting into it, especially when they can't supply the demand they have now, or sell their old stuff piling up. That and power requirements for everything are getting to be ridiculous. I don't think a pc should have to have more than a 650watt psu made to withstand nuclear war just to run. When things simmer down, heat wise, power consumption wise, and core count wise.... then there will be some legitimate competition. I don't think the market will stabalize till 45nm parts and desktop ddr3 come out, simply cause AMD is going to have to be ahead of the game for its next beg run after am2, and Intel is probably already planning out its 45nm parts.