AMD's K8L quad core on schedule

[Das Capitolin]

AMD's K8L quad core on schedule

For Q1 2007


By Fuad Abazovic: Tuesday 11 July 2006, 12:29

DESPITE news reported by our Taiwanese colleagues, our well informed sources confirms that AMD's quad core Athlon 64 X2 successor is on schedule. As we reported before, this CPU is slated for early 2007 and if all goes well we should be able to get it in early Q1 2007.
There are no significant problems and obstacles with the design and the CPU won't be delayed till 2008. This is AMD's horse to run as the firm knows that it needs a lot more than K8 dual core to fight the upcoming Conroe. The new Intel desktop CPU is due to arrive in just thee days from now and is getting ready to win most of the benchmarks versus Athlon X2 5000+ and the FX62.

AMD traditionally doesn’t tell everything to its motherboard partners and very few of them knew about the 4x4 platform before the last minute. I guess it is the same with the K8L quad core as AMD wants to catch Intel dozing and to take its crown back one more time.

So the quad core is definitely due earlier before 2008, I can tell you that.

Here is the Digitimes story. µ

Source: http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=32948

[XJnine]

I bet that even if they know there's no way it'll be out by then they almost had to put out that press release. With all the hype surrounding the Conroe release AMD needed something to keep people from jumping all over the new Intel CPU. They announce this now to keep some people waiting since Q1 07 isn't far away. When that time rolls around there will be another delay but by then people will have waited long enough that they won't mind holding on another 3 to 6 months until the cpu's actually begin shipping. It's kind of a bait and switch to keep market share.

[vfrex]

I don't think you are right about an additional 3-6 month delay. AMD released their roadmap to analysts. They wouldn't lie to them/WallStreet. The problem with the previous article is that people believed it to mean that K8L was being delayed. In fact, all it said was that K8L on AM3 would be coming out in a year (or whatever). K8L was always slated to come out on AM2.

[Scott]

Yeah I think AMD would shoot them self in the foot if they just came out with AM2 and did not plan chips for at least the next 2-3 years to run on it.

It take 18-24 months for chip design so they now what platform this CPU has to support.

[Kougar]

1Q2007??

The best dates I have seen, that I'd be willing to trust anyway, are starting to lock in on 2Q2007 as the date. If they are really aiming for 1Q2007 then I would hate to find out how much extra pressure those engineers at AMD are under right now from having bumped up the release date even further.

I'd have to say though, I bet this is solely because a quad-core AMD part can outperform a quad-core Intel part due to the bandwidth bottlenecking that's shown up on Kentsfield, and being able to tout that around should fix their soon to be mauled superior-than-Intel processor image...

[werty316]

Holy crap Q1 2007?!? and here all the article stated the expected date if sometime 2008. Maybe this is a sing AMD doesn't want Intel to have the CPU crown for such a long time.