Today at GlobalFoundries GTC summit, GloFo and AMD decided to show products and projects they have in the pipeline for 2011.
This picture on the left shows Orochi, a future bulldozer architecture CPU, employing 4 bulldozer modules totaling 8 cores/integer pipelines, expected to appear on shelves in 2H 2011.
These images are currently sparking many discussion threads and debates speculating the significance and functions of these structures, trying to identify known blocks such as L2, L3 Caches, memory and HyperTransport interfaces, execution units, etc.
The debate is currently focused mainly on the fact that the "bottom cores" are approximately 14% smaller than the top blocks, which is quite unusual. Links to some discussions bellow.
The debate is currently focused mainly on the fact that the "bottom cores" are approximately 14% smaller than the top blocks, which is quite unusual. Links to some discussions bellow.
