Processors Toolkit

CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond

Rich Brown & Michelle Thatcher CNET

Published: 19 Mar 2007

Intel and AMD's roadmap plans

	Intel	AMD
Q2 2007	Bearlake desktop platform Santa Rosa mobile platform	Kite mobile platform
Q3 2007	High-end Bearlake chipset, Intel X38	65nm Barcelona quad-core Opteron workstation chips
Q4 2007	45nm Penryn platform with quad-core Yorkfield chips and dual-core Wolfdale chips	Barcelona desktop CPUs: native quad-core Athlon chips
H1 2008	Penryn mobile chips and Montevina mobile platform	Socket AM3 desktop chipset Puma mobile platform
H2 2008	45nm Nehalem platform	45nm Opteron workstation chips
2009 and beyond	Geneseo: successor to PCI Express	45nm desktop chips Fusion: mobile platform combining CPU and GPU
Recap: dawn of the multicore era	April 2005: Pentuim D 840 Extreme Edition January 2006: Pentium D 900 series January 2006: Core Duo July 2006: Core 2 Duo November 2006: Core 2 Extreme QX6700	January 2006: Athlon 64 FX-60 May 2006: Ahtlon 64 X2 and Turion 64 X2 January 2007: Athlon FX Quad

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