• AMD Pushes 32nm Orochi to 2011

    AMD Pushes 32nm Orochi to 2011

    Techtree News Staff, Mar 06, 2009 1610 hrs IST

    Will be first tested in 2010

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AMD CEO Dirk Meyer had announced a ramp-up in their 32nm processor production in 2010 a few days ago. Now, there's news about AMD's attempt to delay their 32nm processor code-named Orochi, which is based on their Bulldozer architecture.

Damon Muzny, a spokesperson for AMD, told Xbit Labs, that the "Bulldozer CPU core was reset to test silicon in late 2010 and product in 2011." The first processors from the new Bulldozer microarchitecture will carry the codename Orochi. The Orochi will be a quad-core CPU with an 8MB cache and support for DDR3 memory.


 


 




According to Intel's roadmap, their 22nm processor dubbed Ivy Bridge will be introduced in 2011. AMD has pushed forward their 32nm chip plans by 12 months and thus tried to maintain a gap of one year between products, like mentioned in Intel's roadmap.

Another interesting 32nm processor to follow Orochi will be the dual-core Ontario that has a 1MB cache (not a typo) and DDR3 memory support. Ontario will be AMD's first 'Fusion' chip, combining x86 instruction set architecture and graphics processing chip on the same die.

We're not surprised by this information since AMD has a track record of delay in bringing out products. What we anticipate is a new architecture that offers better performance with new features and faster memory support.

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