AMD restructures cpu lineup

vickybat

vickybat

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Guys, there will be no sempron, athlon , phenom anymore.

This is what amd has planned. Click here.

AMD is nuking the current processor brands and splitting its entire CPU portfolio into three classes.
AMD may halt processor branding once the company completes its Llano and Zambezi processor lineup. The reason is that AMD reportedly wants to emphasize its corporate AMD Vision trademark and focus consumer attention to its corporate brand.

The news arrives by way of a mysterious document received by X-bit Labs. Although the site didn't provide a scanned copy for all to see, the document supposedly reveals that AMD will divide its processors into three different classes of its Vision platforms including FX-Series, A-Series and E-Series. That means we may not see another Phenom, Athlon or Sempron-related branding on our AMD CPUs ever again. Really, it will be ok.

The AMD document supposedly indicates that the FX-Series will consist of "Zembezi" processors based on Bulldozer micro-architecture with four, six or eight cores. These will be sold using the AMD Vision Black and AMD Vision Ultimate labels.

The A-Series processors will consist of the "Llano" APUs (accelerated processing units). These will have two or four cores and an ATI Radeon HD 6000-class graphics core. These will be sold on AMD Vision Ultimate and AMD Vision Premium platforms.

As for the E-Series, this group will serve the low-end market with APU's using one or two cores and a basic Radeon HD 6000-class "Zacate" graphics core. This series will be sold simply as AMD Vision.

"What you saw AMD do with APUs on the 'Brazos' platform is get component-level branding out of the way so that our OEM partners can imbue their products with branding of their choosing without sub-brands cluttering things up," said Damon Muzny, a spokesman for AMD, in a previous statement. "Vision is AMD's contribution, which comes with the intention of simplifying the purchasing for folks who know what they want to do with their PC and don't care to learn the intricate sub-component technical nuances to make a buying decision. Will we do the same with Llano and Zambezi? You'll have to wait and see."

Currently there's no indication of when this re-branding will take place.
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Cilus

Cilus

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Ya, FX series were the unbeatable king in those days.
Normal AMD Athlon 64 processors achieved their high performance because of higher memory bandwidth of HT link and concentrating more on throughput rather than the speed of the processors, which was Intel's signature in those days...releasing 3.3, 3.4 Ghz processors in a 533 Mhz FSB:-D.
Intel Extreme processors were nothing but same P4 processors with higher speed and 1 MB of L2 cache, compared to 512 KB of normal P4s.
Normal Athlon processors never had this much of speed...The 3000+ was running @ 1.87 GHz, 3000+ means the equivalence with a Intel 3 GHz processors.

Athlon FX processors, on those time were combination of high speed, larger cache and better FPU, resulting tremendous performance over all the processors of that generations
 
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vickybat

vickybat

I am the night...I am...
But its a totally different story now. Lets wait and see if amd can really put a dent on intel this time.
 
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