AMD demonstrates eight-core Bulldozer chip

Posted on Wednesday, November 10 2010 @ 20:25 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

X-bit Labs reports AMD showed off an eight-core Zambezi CPU at its Financial Analyst Day. These chips will start shipping in Q2 2011.

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday demonstrated the operation of its highly-anticipated processor based on the long-awaited Bulldozer micro-architecture. The first ever live demonstration of the processor code-named Zambezi means that the company already has samples of the forthcoming central processing units (CPUs) that are stable enough to run operating system and certain applications.

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