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Rage3d posted an interview with Eric Demers (AMD's Graphics CTO) revealing and confirming details about the launch of their next gen products slated for later this year.
Very interesting times ahead.
Further confirmation Southern Islands is coming soon.http://seekingalpha.com/article/281...sses-q2-2011-results-earnings-call-transcripthttp://seekingalpha.com/article/281...sses-q2-2011-results-earnings-call-transcript
AMD's Graphics Core Next Gen architecture is scheduled to appear in products due in Q4, 2011, as both Eric Demers and Rick Bergman confirmed for us. It is likely they will use TSMC's 28nm process, and have a dual architecture split like Northern Islands. If so, then this time Cayman VLIW-4 architecture hits the mainstream, and the next generation architecture debuts in the high end - similar to AMD's deployment of VLIW-4 in the Radeon HD 6000 series. This makes sense for compatibility with APUs, if Trinity is using VLIW-4 then the discrete GPUs will need to as well for best compatibility and performance.
Very interesting times ahead.
The following is speculation based on the content of the interview, take it with a healthy dose of salt:
Further confirmation Southern Islands is coming soon.http://seekingalpha.com/article/281...sses-q2-2011-results-earnings-call-transcripthttp://seekingalpha.com/article/281...sses-q2-2011-results-earnings-call-transcript
So in a worst case scenario they've had working silicon since the end of June.We also passed several critical milestones in the second quarter as we prepare our next-generation 28-nanometer graphics family. We have working silicon in-house and remain on track to deliver the first members of what we expect will be another industry-leading GPU family to market later this year. We expect to be at the forefront of the GPU industry's transition to 28-nanometer.
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