AMD CEO Dirk Meyer and other AMD executives yesterday delivered the company’s 4Q09 (July 1, 2009 – September 30, 2009) conference call wherein it was confirmed that AMD is on track to completely refresh its lineup of Radeon GPUs.
“We’re ramping the HD 5000 series now and look forward to refreshing the entire lineup in the second half of next year. So we feel good about our prospects in that business,” Meyer said in response to curiosity as to how AMD intends to keep its momentum in the GPU space.
As the conference call was dedicated to the firm’s performance in 4Q09, citing the “second half of next year” likely refers to the second half of fiscal year 2010, which runs from April 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010. This launch window also falls in line with the typical amount of time required to prepare and launch so-called “refresh parts” that echo process improvements through die shrinks or clockspeed enhancements. It is not likely that an entirely new architecture is being readied less than a year after the September ’09 introduction of the Radeon HD 5000 series–anything said to the contrary is irrationally exuberant.
Further, we need only look at a slide presented at a Japanese AMD event to see that the Evergreen family will be the company’s go-to lineup throughout 2010.
And finally, AMD’s own 2009 Financial Analyst Day materials indicate that the firm is not switching to a new generation of GPUs until 2011.
AMD's 2010 desktop platform roadmap.
With an entire lineup refresh on the way, ready your wallets for the Radeon HD 5890s.
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