AMD has announced its first shipments of Bulldozer architecture CPUs. These new CPUs are of the Interlagos variety, targeting the server market and carrying the Opteron name. The new Opterons are the first 16-core x86 processors and will be available in systems around the end of this year.
The FX-labeled Zambezi CPU, the desktop version of Bulldozer, could be announced towards the end of this month with possible 4Q availability. Nothing has been officially announced yet though, so the usual prescription of sodium chloride is required.
In other AMD news, the AMD A4-3300 and A4-3400 have been added to the Llano (Socket FM1) family. Both are dual-core chips with 160 Radeon cores, 1MB of L2 cache, and have a 65W TDP. The A4-3300 costs $70 and runs at 2.5GHz/444MHz (CPU/GPU), while the A4-3400 costs $75 and runs at 2.7GHz/600MHz.
And from the just plain confusing department, the $89.99 AMD Athlon II X4 631 arrived in quiet fashion. The new Athlon II uses the same Socket FM1 platform as the A-series APUs. Based on its specs, this is likely an A6-3650 with a GPU that failed quality testing—the speed (2.6GHz), core count, and 4MB cache are otherwise identical. This CPU is available now.
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