AMD's Next-Gen Steamroller CPU Could Deliver Where Bulldozer Fell Short

MojoKid writes "Today at the Hot Chips Symposium, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster is taking the wraps off the company's upcoming CPU core, codenamed Steamroller. Steamroller is the third iteration of AMD's Bulldozer architecture and an extremely important part for AMD. Bulldozer, which launched just over a year ago, was a disappointment. The company's second-generation Bulldozer implementation, codenamed Piledriver, offered a number of key changes and was incorporated into the Trinity APU family that debuted last spring. Steamroller is the first refresh of Bulldozer's underlying architecture and may finally deliver the sort of performance and efficiency AMD was aiming for when it built Bulldozer in the first place. Enhancements to Fetch and Decode architecture have been made, as well as increased scheduler efficiency and cache load latency, which combined could bring a claimed 15 percent performance-per-watt performance gain. AMD expects to ship Steamroller sometime in 2013 but wouldn't offer timing detail beyond that."

AMD has cool code names.

[Anonymous Coward]

They all sound like sexual positions.

Re:AMD has cool code names.

[Johann Lau]

And Intel ones don't? Who are you kidding?

Aladdin
Bad Axe
Bad Axe 2
Batman
Batman's Revenge
Big Laurel
Black Pine (a cute name for anal sex I guess)
Black Rapids (I don't want to know)
Bonetrail
Caneland
Cougar Canyon
Glidewell
Tanglewood (sounds bi to me)
Warm Springs

and last, but never least, the

Windmill (also known as "Helicopter Dick")