AMD Bulldozer, Llano launch dates leaked
The release dates for AMD Bulldozer and
Llano appear to have ended up being leaked
to a Turkish trade mag.
The mag is claiming that Bulldozer will be in
the shops in June 20 and Llano will be ready
in July. AMD UK estimates Llano won't be
available until September, last time we talked
to them, at Distree in Monaco.
The information is attributed to industrial
sources which probably means a supplier
spilt the beans.
The Turkish site has found a leaked slide
and quotes information gathered by
"industrial sources," and various reports are
indicating that AMD plans to launch its
upcoming high-end desktop Bulldozer CPUs
sometime during the week of June 20,
2011.
Looking at it all it
would appear that
Bulldozer will arrive in
quad-core, six-core and eight-core variants
using the FX handle. There will be two
FX4000-series chips, two will be FX6000-
series chips and four will be FX8000s.
Four processors are expected to appear in
Q2 2011 while the other four are planned
for the last quarter.
The Llano A-Series APUs will appear in two-
core, three-core and quad-core flavours just
when the US is celebrating its illegal French-
backed coup against its lawful King. More
than eleven Llamo APUs will be released
throughout the year.
The slides give us a two year view of what
AMD has planned. It looks like over the next
two years all three Llano APUs will support
1,600 MHz DDR3 memory at 45W.
"BeaverCreek" and "WinterPark" integrated
DirectX 11 GPUs will be shoved under the
bonnet.
Llano will be aimed at the mainstream and
performance markets during 2011 whereas
the Zacate will go into the essential market
and Ontario will head for the sub-12-inch
markets respectively.
If the world does not end in 2012, Trinity,
Richland, Wichita will be released to target
the essential, mainstream and performance
markets. A Krishna APU will target the
sub-12-inch devices probably by riding a
horse and killing off sinners with a bow.