AMD Bulldozer
I always enjoyed the codenames chosen by AMD for its products, but when I heard "Bulldozer," I wasn't really thrilled. For me, this word suggests a very low speed, but since a bulldozer is a very powerful machine, it could be more about power, than speed. Anyway, that's the truth as we speak too, because AMD's clock speeds are lower than Intel's. Leaving this aside, it seems the Bulldozer is going to be completely different from the Phenom, so let's take a closer look...
In an interview for Custom PC, AMD's European Technical Director of Sales and Marketing, Giuseppe Amato, said "if you look at the next-generation architecture of our CPU, then it will definitely not be comparable with the Phenom. It will look completely different."
Unfortunately, he didn't give any clue on the changes we should expect, but he added that this new architecture "would solve problems that today we think can never be addressed by hardware." What kind of problems? Well, no clue about that, either.
Anyway, he's probably talking about the upcoming Bulldozer core, which is expected to be the first architecture to integrate a GPU core, since some inside sources from AMD hinted that the 780G is the last AMD integrated graphics chipset. First, they managed to integrate the memory controller on the CPU die and gain an advantage in the battle with Intel; now, if they manage to integrate the CPU and GPU on the same die, AMD may gain a significant lead, ahead of Intel and NVIDIA alike!
Unfortunately, these are only rumors and speculations, and some time should pass until we get to be sure about what and when will happen. Hopefully, not too much time, for everyone's sake...
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