Analysts said AMD's updated road map should help it remain competitive with Intel while remaining appropriately conservative in the wake of AMD's heavy financial losses and delays for its four-core Barcelona server CPU.

AMD said it will ship in early 2010 its Magny-Cours processor. It will use two six-core die of a 2010-class design called Sao Paolo liked via a novel interconnect the company would not discuss.

Randy Allen, general manager of AMD's server and workstation division, said the company rejected the approach Intel took to linking two die on a chip. The method it came up with achieves "nearly monolithic levels of performance," he said.

AMD claims its Barcelona server CPU has an average 13 percent performance advantage over Intel's chips, in part because Barcelona packs all four cores on one die while Intel's parts link two die in a package.

The current road map showed no new core designs. AMD has discussed a new high performance core called Bulldozer as well as a low power core, but neither appeared on the server road map through 2010.

By: DocMemory
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