AMD has been very forthcoming about its upcoming CPUs and APUs, giving us plenty of details on the architectures and the mobile products that will make it to market. However, there's still a lot of mystery surrounding the Bulldozer- and Llano-based chips that are due in the second half of next year.
Now, German site ATI-Forum has managed to get its hands on what it claims are leaked slides from an AMD presentation that give a few more details on the company's plans. The most interesting titbit is the fact that we might see the AM3+ platform and eight-core Zambezi chips with 125W and 95W TDPs showing up before the middle of next year. Of course, we already knew to expect some of these Bulldozer-based processors at around that time, but the roadmap clearly shows that AMD will launch four-, six- and eight-core chips, all with Turbo Core, during that same period.
There are also some more clues as to the upcoming Fusion APUs. As we already know, the low-power Bobcat chips will launch at the very tail end of this year in dual- and single-core models. The roadmap also shows two-, three- and four-core Llano CPUs as a part of the Beavercreek and Winterpark families launching in the third quarter of 2011.
Notice that the chips have relatively high TDPs - 65W and 100W - yet appear to be using a new 'FM1' socket. The thermal-envelopes would rule them out of the notebook market, meaning that this new interface could be an essential part of the Llano desktop platform. Even though AMD has generally maintained backward compatibility with its processors and sockets, it isn't surprising that a processor with an integrated GPU would require a new socket.
What makes this all really interesting is that Llano always was - and officially still is - supposed to launch before Bulldozer in the second half of 2011. However, there have been rumours of manufacturing issues with the more complex hybrid CPU/GPU chips that have forced them into Q3, as these slides describe.
