Future architecture speculation thread

[yannifb]

Ok, the point of this thread is to discuss what everyone thinks and/or knows about upcoming CPU archs. The point isn't for accurate info (duh...) but just so others may learn stuff they didn't from someone else, and vice versa. Also i just find discussions about not yet released products to be a little more interesting than constant arguing about current chips.

I will start off with a few questions and links:

Do you think that Intels Sandy Bridge is going to be a huge performance increase, or just a polishing of the arch like k10.5 was to k10?

Do you think AMD's Fusion chip will blow other cpus out of the water due to supposedly having "teraflops performance on a cpu"?

Do you think AMD's Bulldozer is just a measly power efficiency upgrade or will it bring serious IPC and performance increases?

And now here are some interesting things to read:

Fusion-
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/355429/amds-fusion-processor-first-details
http://www.pcworld.com/article/141814/amds_fusion_chip_will_be_based_on_phenom_processor.html
http://www.slashgear.com/amd-fusion-cpugpu-combo-to-fight-intel-in-notebooks-0973334/

Bulldozer-
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3674
http://blogs.amd.com/unprocessed/tag/bulldozer/

Sandy Bridge-
http://www.dvhardware.net/article39892.html
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14524/35/

 

[yannifb]

i thought it was a good idea....