AMD Bulldozer and Llano estimated pricing.


Another A75 AMD Llano board out by ASRock. New heatsink bracket for all AMD AM3+/FM1 motherboards and 8 SATA 6GB/s ports natively supported by the AMD chipset.

zambezi 8cores is exp

It is not expensive if you consider the current price of a Core i7 2600K is $315. You cant just do a conversion from USD to MYR and expect that 8 core BD to cost that much. If you look here you can also see that Intel recommends a price of $317 for the Core i7 2600K.

yeah..very reasonable price if the 8 core zambezi will perform better than 2600k..

thank bro..my budget is enough and i still can wait..btw girlfriend is out of league..

Leaked price (Arranged, converted from US Dollar to RM, source : computerbase.de) :



I wonder P stands for what.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: May 22 2011, 09:22 PM

performance mayb?

still quite exp, can fight with intel d

if can pwn ivy bridge also den it is worth for its price

P = Intel K series?
I hope A8-3550P better 15% on i5-2500K

the pricing seems to be nice. now, performance will decide if AMD will be the king or still a horse.

sure will get one if performance per core better than sandy....

Don't be so ambitious first.. Lol..
First, wait it to pwn sandy bridge, only then we talk bout ivy bridge. Since ivy bridge is not launched yet..
But hopefully, with the bulldozer, AMD can once again compete in Proc market.

LOL, i just wanna see price war

judging from the leaked price range, I think bulldozer is no better than sandy bridge.

me also think the same.... if it superior thean SB, amd will market it for higher pricetag!.

i think Glofo also part of AMD!

Even if it is superior in terms of performance comparable to SB Extreme not a lot of people is going to pay 3k just for an AMD CPU. That kind of super high end market is just for Intel as only some rich enthusiasts which is <1% of the consumers are willing to pay more than 1k for the best CPU. If they get some performance out of the BD architecture and sell it at a similar price to the regular SB then it is just fine.

Simply put if a company can sell something that is cheap and in large quantities will be more profitable than a company that sells something that is expensive but in small quantities. That is why Toyota is a much bigger company than Ferarri.

AMD is seriously crippled by a less advanced manufacturing technology. But if Bulldozer is within striking distance of Sandy Bridge, it's a win for me. Because if AMD had the same manufacturing technology as Intel, AMD would have the performance and efficiency crown.

I wouldn't say that AMD is crippled because they currently do not have any fab to manufacturer CPU. They are currently relying on Global Foundries to do their CPU unlike Intel which is rich enough to have their own fab. Not many know how good GloFlo is at manufacturing yet so if they are good at it then maybe it might perform better. As for efficiency also depends if the company has a lot of money to do R&D faster than their competitor in this case Intel would lead. As for the manufacturing size there is a limit and some have said that we're approaching that limit really soon and it gets harder to manufacture as it gets smaller due to current leakage.

No they are not. AMD got shares in GloFlo but not even close to 50% majority share so GloFlo is not owned by AMD. The difference is that Intel controls its fab so it can tell it to do whatever they want while GloFlo is independent like TSMC and they can do whatever they want and not be a customer to AMD only.

i no expert, but i think amd clearly lost its way to innovate when they sold global foundries.

I don't see how a semiconductor company can lose its way to innovate when AMD designs the architecture and GF makes the wafers. There is no advantage or disadvantage to having a separation of a fab from the company as AMD and Nvidia makes their graphic cards at TSMC and they're doing pretty well.

you are correct, when your main competitor is pushing for 22nm, high-k and 3d-transistor, its still fine to stick with whatever as long your chip sells as well.