Bobcat is a processor codenamed and designed by AMD. The processor's existence was revealed during a speech from AMD executive vice-president Henri Richard in Computex 2007 held in Taiwan; it is expected to be launched in 2011.[1] One the major supporters was executive vice-president Mario A. Rivas who felt it was difficult to compete in the x86 market with a single core optimized for the 10-100 watts range and actively promoted the development of the simpler core with a target range of 1-10 watts. In addition, the core could migrate into the hand-held space by reducing the power consumption down to 250 mW.
The Bobcat processor is an x86 CPU core aiming at TDP value between 1 to 10 W, together with low voltage operation, the processor was aimed at consumer electronic markets. According to now former executive vice-president of AMD, Dave Orton, Bobcat would make its debut in UMPC devices, OLPC devices, handheld devices, and other small form factor devices.[2]
The Bobcat core will be incorporated together with GPU cores into processors under the "Fusion" brand.[3] [4] A simplified architecture diagram was released at AMD's Analyst Day in November 2009. This is similar in concept with earlier AMD research in 2003,[5] detailing the specifications and advantages of extending x86 "everywhere".
The first processors featuring the Bobcat core are codenamed Ontario and will arrive in 2011.[6]
References
- ^ Hruska, Joel (November 14, 2008). "AMD Fusion now pushed back to 2011". Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081114-amd-fusion-now-pushed-back-to-2011.html.
- ^ (Japanese) PC Watch report
- ^ Dailytech report
- ^ "Analyst Day 2009 Presentations". AMD. November 11, 2009. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-analystday. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
- ^ AMD 2003 Microprocessor Forum Slides: Slide 11 and Slide 22
- ^ "Analyst Day 2009 Summary". AMD. November 11, 2009. http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-analyst-day-2009nov11.aspx. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
See also
- AMD Fusion
- Bulldozer, core for 10 Watts to 100 Watts TDP products
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External links
- (Japanese) PC Watch report
- Dailytech report
- RegHardware report
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