The all-new micro-architecture by AMD is set to emerge only in late 2015. But before that we will probably see the last and final play of the Bulldozer in the form of the Excavator cores that are projected to be present in the 2014 APUs code-named Carrizo and Toronto.
While the Excavator will definitely show what the Bulldozer micro-architecture is capable of, it will unlikely deliver performance that the public wants from it to compete against Intel?s Core i7-series microprocessors.
What is, perhaps, more important is that one of AMD?s official document detailed a sixteen-core AMD Bulldozer-derived processor. If the company pursues this opportunity an goes for a 16-core chip featuring Steamroller or Excavator cores, its new chips based on the new micro-architecture will only be available in 2016 or even 2017.
While nothing is clear now, a good news is that AMD has not given up high-end microprocessors for servers and clients, the Opteron and the FX-series.
AMD did not comment on the news-story.
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