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The Bulldozer Blog is Live

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#1 ·
We are getting set to re-structure our blog site and there will be a dedicated Bulldozer section that will launch with the new site. Here are the first 2 entries.

Introduction to the Bulldozer Blog:
http://bit.ly/aogYzM

What is Bulldozer:
http://bit.ly/dzPxJt

What you will see in the Bulldozer Blog in the near future:

* "Bulldozer 20 Questions" - we're reviving the popular 20 questions blog, we'll take the best public questions and answer them in the blog over a series of postings.
* Bulldozer technical blog - we'll have our engineers providing some technical details after the Hot Chips presentation
* Bulldozer client blog - yes, even though I spend my life in the server world, there will be a client blog to talk about how Bulldozer will impact the client world.

As always, we don't discuss launch dates, actual performance, pricing or engineering milestones, but look forward to seeing a lot of new information coming out in the future.

Be sure to bookmark the Bulldozer Blog; in the future we will have some syndication tools that allow us to keep you in touch and subscribed to all Bulldozer information.

Put in from pioneerisloud: (from this point, up until the note from staff)
Please see JF-AMD's Pre-Launch FAQ post about Bulldozer, before you post here.

Update Sept. 7, 2011:
Tankguys is asking about preorders.
 
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Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
We are getting set to re-structure our blog site and there will be a dedicated Bulldozer section that will launch with the new site. Here are the first 2 entries.

Introduction to the Bulldozer Blog:
http://bit.ly/aogYzM

What is Bulldozer:
http://bit.ly/dzPxJt

What you will see in the Bulldozer Blog in the near future:

* "Bulldozer 20 Questions" - we're reviving the popular 20 questions blog, we'll take the best public questions and answer them in the blog over a series of postings.
* Bulldozer technical blog - we'll have our engineers providing some technical details after the Hot Chips presentation
* Bulldozer client blog - yes, even though I spend my life in the server world, there will be a client blog to talk about how Bulldozer will impact the client world.

As always, we don't discuss launch dates, actual performance, pricing or engineering milestones, but look forward to seeing a lot of new information coming out in the future.

Be sure to bookmark the Bulldozer Blog; in the future we will have some syndication tools that allow us to keep you in touch and subscribed to all Bulldozer information.

Thank you man!
 
#4 ·
Nice! Thanks so much for the info!
Thanks for being active here, too!
Edit: Woah woah woah. Wth is Bobcat?
Edit 2: Most popular rumor is that Bulldozer will be AM3+ and compatible with today's motherboards, though I doubt you'll get the full potential if you do use an old board.
 
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We've designed a platform specification that supports higher speed and higher capacity than what we offer today, but we do have to be realistic - our technology partners will probably support those options that are JEDEC compliant and commercially available at the time of launch
Interesting
 
#8 ·
This comes at a good time for me as im gona be planning a new 2nd gaming rig so me and my son can play games on LAN in the next 4-6 weeks and had been looking at the new amd 6cores but was a little put off by the performance vs an i7 930 when o/c.

But this now means i could just go amd 6 core until the new cpu is out next year.
 
#11 ·
I'm excited, good work! I can hardly wait to read more.
 
#12 ·
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This new core design is planned as the basis for our next generation AMD Opteronâ„¢ processors, as well as our high end client products.
Does anyone know if the Bulldozer Opterons will be a server socket, or if they will just be AM3? I loved my 939 Opteron 148, I'd love to use another Opteron in the future, but buying an expensive server motherboard is a no go.
 
#14 ·
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Originally Posted by Redmist View Post
Does anyone know if the Bulldozer Opterons will be a server socket, or if they will just be AM3? I loved my 939 Opteron 148, I'd love to use another Opteron in the future, but buying an expensive server motherboard is a no go.
Server processors fit in server sockets (C32 and G34).
 
#16 ·
So,right, im assuming that the socket type for this new upcoming cpu is not yet announced?

Or is it basically going to be a direct upgrade path for the same type of motherboard that runs the 1090t ?

Id love to know as im putting another rig together soon and if i can buy an amd setup with 1090t now and upgrade to this better bulldozer cpu next year on same board then im in!


Anyone?
 
#17 ·
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Originally Posted by superj1977 View Post
So,right, im assuming that the socket type for this new upcoming cpu is not yet announced?

Or is it basically going to be a direct upgrade path for the same type of motherboard that runs the 1090t ?

Id love to know as im putting another rig together soon and if i can buy an amd setup with 1090t now and upgrade to this better bulldozer cpu next year on same board then im in!


Anyone?

It's rumoured that there will be Bulldozer CPUs for existing AM3 motherboards (dependent on BIOS updates from manufacturers of course). Personally I think it's very likely. There is also a rumoured socket AM3r2 (perhaps analogous to AM2/AM2+).

On the server side, the sockets for Bulldozer already exist in the form of socket G34 and C32 (Opteron 6000 and 4000 series).
 
#19 ·
Hmmm,like i say im building in 4-8 weeks so im gona keep an eye on here to see if the socket compatability is a bit more clearer.

I would love to be able to buy an amd 1090t and mobo for now and next year just swap out the cpu for this more powerfull one,bulldozer.

Hopefully i can do this otherwise its off for an i7 920,no way im paying for an 980x they can get bent!
 
#20 ·
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Originally Posted by superj1977 View Post
Hmmm,like i say im building in 4-8 weeks so im gona keep an eye on here to see if the socket compatability is a bit more clearer.

I would love to be able to buy an amd 1090t and mobo for now and next year just swap out the cpu for this more powerfull one,bulldozer.

Hopefully i can do this otherwise its off for an i7 920,no way im paying for an 980x they can get bent!
What were you planning on upgrading your i7-920 to? From what I've seen around on the web, Sandy Bridge (Intel's next architecture) is coming in two new sockets (LGA1155 and LGA2011). More chance of an upgrade with AMD. 1090T, do it
(yes I'm an AMD fan)
 
#21 ·
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Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
We are getting set to re-structure our blog site and there will be a dedicated Bulldozer section that will launch with the new site. Here are the first 2 entries.

Introduction to the Bulldozer Blog:
http://bit.ly/aogYzM

What is Bulldozer:
http://bit.ly/dzPxJt

What you will see in the Bulldozer Blog in the near future:

* "Bulldozer 20 Questions" - we're reviving the popular 20 questions blog, we'll take the best public questions and answer them in the blog over a series of postings.
* Bulldozer technical blog - we'll have our engineers providing some technical details after the Hot Chips presentation
* Bulldozer client blog - yes, even though I spend my life in the server world, there will be a client blog to talk about how Bulldozer will impact the client world.

As always, we don't discuss launch dates, actual performance, pricing or engineering milestones, but look forward to seeing a lot of new information coming out in the future.

Be sure to bookmark the Bulldozer Blog; in the future we will have some syndication tools that allow us to keep you in touch and subscribed to all Bulldozer information.
lol John Fruehe?

OMG...ohaithere


Thanks for letting us know...wish we could convince you to give us some early performance comparisons but that's okay. Thanks for posting.
 
#24 ·
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Originally Posted by superj1977 View Post
So,right, im assuming that the socket type for this new upcoming cpu is not yet announced?

Or is it basically going to be a direct upgrade path for the same type of motherboard that runs the 1090t ?

Id love to know as im putting another rig together soon and if i can buy an amd setup with 1090t now and upgrade to this better bulldozer cpu next year on same board then im in!


Anyone?

I read the links.
It's going to be AM3,

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Just to make sure that everyone is up to speed on what Bulldozer is â€" a brand new design featuring up to 8 cores for client products and up to 16 cores for server products. Bulldozer will feature a new floating point unit that can support up to 256-bit floating point execution, which will boost the performance for technical applications that rely on floating point math. There will be some new software instructions that will be supported, allowing for greater performance and flexibility, but, it will be backwards compatible so you won’t need to change anything to start using the processor. We will be introducing this processor in 2011, and as we get closer we’ll get more granular on the actual availability.
 
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