juanrga :
Interesting reading, seems to confirm everything that I have said in this thread:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/AMDs-Processor-Shift-Future-Really-Fusion/Future-Still-Fusion
No Steamroller for AM3+, only legacy support for 8000/9000 series.
AMD will continue selling 8000/9000 series before releasing top high-performance APUs. No 4M APU for 2014, 3M APU still possible in late 2014 (but unlikely).
Warsaw will be substituted by Excavator version of Berlin.
HyperTransport obsolete.
2/4 cores for mainstream desktop/laptop. 6/8 cores for enthusiast desktops. 4/8/12/16 cores for servers.
Full transition to APUs by about 2015.
Some more predictions/thoughts that the article doesn't consider:
ARM APU for 2016
Move to ARM (from x86) for 2018-2020.
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/AMDs-Processor-Shift-Future-Really-Fusion/Future-Still-Fusion
No Steamroller for AM3+, only legacy support for 8000/9000 series.
AMD will continue selling 8000/9000 series before releasing top high-performance APUs. No 4M APU for 2014, 3M APU still possible in late 2014 (but unlikely).
Warsaw will be substituted by Excavator version of Berlin.
HyperTransport obsolete.
2/4 cores for mainstream desktop/laptop. 6/8 cores for enthusiast desktops. 4/8/12/16 cores for servers.
Full transition to APUs by about 2015.
Some more predictions/thoughts that the article doesn't consider:
ARM APU for 2016
Move to ARM (from x86) for 2018-2020.
your looking for any excuse to cling to your assumption that AMD is going to be a low-end only company from now on. You should be praying that your wrong instead of praising the move to VIA status.
Then again, maybe AMD is trying to make a gpu-only computer with a core clock of 1.1 ghz.