AMD fully transitions to new architecture and new technology in the second quarter of next year

Although the competitor's 32nm process has been basically universalized, and its own production has not yet been produced, AMD's prospects for the new process are ambitious and it is planned that it will be fully converted in 2012.

At present, the main shipments of AMD desktop processors are of course the 45nm process, Phenom II and Athlon II series with Socket AM3 interface, and in just over a year they will be completely eliminated, being bulldozers, Brazos/Llano APU in different fields. Replaced by.

AMD expects that by the second quarter of 2012, about 20% of its desktop processor shipments will be 32nm process-fabricated Socket AM3+ packaged bulldozers Zambezi, which is the AMD FX series; about 10% will be manufactured in 40nm processes. Brazos APU Low Power Convergence Platform in Socket FT1 package, namely AMD E/C series; 70% of the rest are all Llano APU high performance fusion platforms with 32nm process manufacturing and Socket FM1 interface, or AMD. A series, which can also be seen AMD's determination and efforts to promote Fusion APU in the mainstream market.

On the other hand, with the popularity of new architectures and new processes, Athlon, Phenom, and other processor brands that have been fighting for years will gradually withdraw from the arena.

In fact, according to the roadmap, after more than a year, high-performance, low-power fusion processors based on enhanced bulldozers and new 28nm technologies will all be born. The former is still a 32nm process, but it will also integrate DX11 GPU graphics cores. .

According to the latest plan, Llano APU will be produced and released in the second quarter of this year, and the Zambezi processor will be produced and released in June.