AMD's Bobcat Takes Aim at Key Consumer Low-Power Market Segments

[PauloBral]

^What use would a there be for a hexacore (high-end) CPU with a low-end integrated GPU?

I meant 5000 series, like 5750 or whatever... Think about the entire thing...

 

[largon]

Hexacore laptop? Err.... ok... And the use for that would be?
Laptops have little use for multicores beyond what's necessary, as in dual. DTR laptops are such a niche.

And why would you want a CPU with a die nearly the size of a Fermi? Istanbul is 346mm² and Redwood/"RV840" is 104mm². It would be abso-bloody-lutely expensive to make and not appeal large crowds.

 

[wahdangun]

Hexacore laptop? Err.... ok... And the use for that would be?
Laptops have little use for multicores beyond what's necessary, as in dual. DTR laptops are such a niche.

And why would you want a CPU with a die nearly the size of a Fermi? Istanbul is 346mm² and Redwood/"RV840" is 104mm². It would be abso-bloody-lutely expensive to make and not appeal large crowds.

so tell that to people that buy corei7 laptop, with even SLi'ed mobile fermi GPU(its a niche but intel still make corei7 for laptop), and btw the fusion part was dual core not hexacore (but it will be interesting to have such powerful cpu on laptop)

and btw the fusion CPU will be build on 32 nm so it will surely not BIG as FERMI, and why the hell AMD want to build monster like fermi for laptop and low power CPU ?

 

[bear jesus]

so tell that to people that buy corei7 laptop, with even SLi'ed mobile fermi GPU(its a niche but intel still make corei7 for laptop), and btw the fusion part was dual core not hexacore (but it will be interesting to have such powerful cpu on laptop

what some thing like this "Eurocom D900F Panther. features Intel's six core i7-980X Extreme Edition, Nvidia Quadro FX OpenGL graphics, up to 24 GB of DDR3 and up to 2.6 TB of storage"

but can hardly call something that weighs 12lbs a laptop

 

[pr0n Inspector]

Now create a million SKUs so people can get ideal combinations of CPU and GPU power for their needs Oh wait...

 

[Super XP]

But it doesn't have NB on-die? I mean, on CPU? Could this mean that the end product won't be able to share platform with Bulldozer? I' m just asking. If Bobcat is intended only for mobile market, then OK. If not... it makes me kinda sad... it was just great that AMD cared about platform and backward compatibility, and had only one desktop socket... sniff...

The NB is part of the chip, not the module. You can have as many as 2, 4, 6 & 8+ modules on a single chip. Though it does look like they may have more than one NB if they have mroe than 2 modules I think.

 

[btarunr]

Architect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3K05gvvcI

 

[W1zzard]

i added the full slide deck from Hot Chips Conference to the first post

 

[bear jesus]

i added the full slide deck from Hot Chips Conference to the first post

Thanks some interesting information there, im really looking forward to seeing how much amd can improve in the mobile segment but of corse for now only time will tell