AMD representatives began actively to speak aboutfuture processors. Besides 45 nm processors Phenom generation , There is new detail about hybrid processors.
According to some statements from (Phil Hester), AMD chief technologist , developments of processors being concerned tendencies. Actually, AMD does not see future in the growth of uniform core quantity - in this context an example with the 80- core prototype, which Intel company demonstrated was mentioned.
Hybrid processors APU will possess a sufficient flexibility in the formation of architecture: they will consist in separate blocks, which will be united in the necessary combination. In this case all blocks will be integrated on one piece of silicon, which potentially increases not only the risk of delays with the preparation of product announcement , but also the risk of defective crystals appearance .
In server segment the specialized accelerators will be also prescribed directly in the processors, simply here in the composition of hybrid processor there will be more core. In the desktop and mobile segments , the composition of hybrid processors will be more graphic core and multimedia accelerators. For example, the first processor class Fusion, which is known under the code designation Swift, will get 45 nm processor core generation Stars (Phenom) with Ddr-3 memory support .
The traditional architecture of multicore processors is dead, as asserts Mr. Hester. Now processors will get different core, whose collection will be determined by the specific character of the executed tasks. Let us recall that Intel also expects to release in 2009 processors with the integrated graphic core, but they will be located on separate crystal .