The Turkish counterpart Donanim Haber broke the news that AMD's Bulldozer architecture processor will re-enable the long-lost "FX" sub-brand and combine it with the "VISION" brand, which includes two modules. The four-core, three-module six-core is named "VISION Ultimate FX", and the four-module eight-core is named "VISION Black FX." In the past, AMD FX was positioned as a flagship sub-brand equivalent to Intel Extreme Edition, such as the Athlon 64 FX-50/60 series, with open frequency multipliers and dual parallel support, at prices as high as a thousand dollars or nearly ten thousand yuan, but With the increasing Intel Core architecture, AMD began to specialize in the low-end market, while quietly gave up the FX series, Phenom FX series also died.
Bulldozers will be AMD's first micro-architecture in the real sense since K7 in 1999 and K8 in 2003. AMD is also confident that it will re-extract FX sub-brands, even citing T in the Terminator movie. -800 robot image and Schwarzenegger's classic line: "I Will Be Back!"
Interestingly, the AMD Brazos APU low-power convergence platform has also been put under the VISION brand. Will the future high-performance desktop version Llano APU also adopt the VISION brand? Does this mean that a series of processor brands such as Phenom, Athlon, Sempron, Turion will be disabled? Considering the platformization and brand simplification strategies that AMD is now pushing, this possibility is not non-existent.
The desktop version of the bulldozer family Zambezi will be put into production in April 2011 and will be officially released in the second quarter. It will be manufactured on the GlobalFoundries 32nm HKMG process, with Socket AM3+ package interface, 1MB L2 cache per core, up to 8MB shared The three-level cache supports HT 3.1 bus, Turbo Core 2.0 dynamic acceleration technology, dual-channel DDR3-1866 memory, and will be paired with the 900 series chipset and Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards to form the next-generation high-end desktop platform "Scorpius" (Scorpius).