Thursday, July 17th 2008
First Sketch of AMD Socket G34 Presented
AMD wants to leave the Barcelona (rather K10) debacle behind it as it moves closer to a newer processor architecture. This paves way for AMD to incorporate strong memory and system interface links. The G34 socket though touted to be a successor for the current socket 1207, is believed to be a standard socket for both enterprise and PC processors. AMD is working on a new CPU architecture codenamed 'Bulldozer'. Derivatives include monolithic 8-core and 12-core processors. The 12-core processor is now codenamed Magny-Cours, the 8-core part is called Sao Paulo. These processors could feature four parallel HyperTransport 3.0 interconnects, upto 12 MB of L3 cache and 512 KB L2 cache per core. It's known that AMD could be working on quad-channel DDR3 (both registered DDR3 under G3MX and unregistered). Socket G34 seems to have 1,974 pins.
The provision of four independent HyperTransport interconnects means that the fourth interconnect can be dedicated as a peer-to-peer interconnect between two sockets in a dual-socket setup, or its bandwidth split to form daisy-chains with multiple sockets. A prelude to AMD's Torrenza enterprise platform, which would allow use of several co-processors of different architectures including ClearSpeed to be embedded in workstations.
Source:
DailyTech
The provision of four independent HyperTransport interconnects means that the fourth interconnect can be dedicated as a peer-to-peer interconnect between two sockets in a dual-socket setup, or its bandwidth split to form daisy-chains with multiple sockets. A prelude to AMD's Torrenza enterprise platform, which would allow use of several co-processors of different architectures including ClearSpeed to be embedded in workstations.
37 Comments on First Sketch of AMD Socket G34 Presented
Good luck....
but i heard that this CPU should solve the problem where software is not programmed for multi-core CPUs, if that is true, then it could prove to be a big thing!
Lets hope that is true.
I hope the former happens, AMD needs some good chips and Intel needs the competition!
(On a side note, the Pentium Pro was rectangular, and that was an awesome chip :D)
C'mon AMD, can't you better than this?? I know that this will be a 12 core processor but even still...
Let's wait and see... I hope that AMD can compete with Intel with this new architecture.
The Bulldozer design is said to be a completely different architecture built from the ground up as AMD likes to put it (Nothing to do with K8). The K8 served its time quite nicely but it was time to move to something new and faster.
It’s also said to be more than 2 to 4 times faster in a clock-4-clock environment.
Also AMD’s other design called Fusion will have nothing to do with Bulldozer. Both are different in design and meant for a different purpose from what I’ve found out.
Hopefully this gives AMD a fighting chance.