Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Advanced Micro Devices Inc has said it has started "revenue shipments" of the first processor based on its Bulldozer x86 architecture, a 16-core x86-compatible processor codenamed Interlagos.
Initial production of Interlagos began in August, the company said. The chip is compatible with existing AMD Opteron 6100 Series platforms and infrastructure. Many of the initial shipments are set to go supercomputer installations, AMD (Sunnyvale, Calif) said.
The Interlagos chip is reportedly manufactured for AMD by Globalfoundries Inc (Sunnyvale, Calif) using a 32-nm silicon-on-insulator manufacturing process with high-K gate insulator and a metal gate (HKMG).
"This is a monumental moment for the industry as this first Bulldozer core represents the beginning of unprecedented performance scaling for x86 CPUs," said Rick Bergman, senior vice president at AMD, in a statement. "The flexible new 'Bulldozer' architecture will give Web and datacenter customers the scalability they need to handle emerging cloud and virtualization workloads."
By: DocMemory
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