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AMD Announces the Development of Steamroller

Heightened demand for high-end processor solutions and ever rising competition make AMD constantly develop its products. This usually results in the release of really outstanding items, such as already acknowledged Bulldozer and Piledriver. Therefore, according to the words of the companies technical manager, Mark Papermaster, the development of a new processor architecture, codenamed Steamroller, is already on order of AMD's business. The ready-made products are sure to be released next year. Steamroller is called to become the third edition of Bulldozer architecture that launched last year and a loyal companion of Piledriver core.

The initial data witness that processors on Steamroller architecture will be designed in correspondence with 28 nm technological process. This should favorably affect their efficiency and enlarge the performance by 15-20% at equivalent power consumption and clock frequency. At the same time, Steamroller will improve all specifications implemented in Bulldozer, including optimization of directions processed per stroke.

Currently, processors built on Bulldozer architecture are able to process maximum sixteen directions, four directions per each computational module. But the future CPUs based on Steamroller are promised to demonstrate better performance and process thirty-two directions per stoke for 8-core chip. In these terms, the future products will be equatable to CPUs from Intel (Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge). Moreover, Steamroller will be delivered with the improved computational properties.
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  • 31 August 2012, 18:32
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