BULLDOZER
While AMD is not releasing hardly any detail about what this processor is about under the hood, from what we have been privy too it is almost a fully new way to think about processing while at the same time keeping a very keen focus on not shutting out legacy applications that exist in the market place. We will see Bulldozer in enterprise servers as well as on our own desktops. The statements that most needs to be focused on are, “Continued Scaling for single-thread performance,” and Partitioned for future scalability and modularity.” That would tell me that Bulldozer could be morphed according to the importance of the application whether it has specific multi-thread needs or single thread needs and still take advantage of all its resources. Currently using our dual and quad core processors, when we have a resource-hungry single threaded application, which is still usually the case, our other core(s) are sitting there doing nothing. Bulldozer seems to be able to unite its core to work together on a single threaded application. As for the “partitioned” statement I would have to read into that the heart of Bulldozer is somewhat akin to AMD’s M-SPACE design methodology in that it could be very possibly for AMD to build Bulldozer cores designed for specific applications and hardware.
(Povratak RHT "mita"??- Ako je ovo tacno,onda je Bulldozer definitivno nesto sto ce biti revolucija a ne evolucija kao do sada)
I think it is worth making the point that Bulldozer is a radical departure from the current AMD cores and even the Barcelona cores which are yet to hit the marketplace . Bulldozer will be the first “clean break” we have seen from AMD’s K8 core. Bulldozer is easily the most promising architecture we have seen from AMD since its Opteron launch in April of 2003.
Bulldozer is slated to be launched into the “Sandtiger” server and workstation arena in mid-to-late 2009 using DDR3 memories.
When you see the reference to 8 or 16 Bulldozer cores and think that is nothing new, keep in mind that we have yet to see exactly what is inside these cores or how the core itself could be scaled or modularized.
