Indeed 

For now,enjoice Zacate performance 1st.Its already > Atom 

For a long time, AMD stuck by the vague release schedule of "2011" for Bulldozer. In late 2010, AMD surprised many by announcing Bulldozer would be release in Q2 2011. While some have raised doubts about the Q2 2011 schedule, Donanimhaber reports that according to an AMD document, the first Bulldozer CPU, codenamed Zambezi, is well on schedule to hit markets in the first half of 2011.

Production should ramp up by March/April 2011, with widespread release some time in Q2 2011. The core logic supporting the Zambezi CPUs, AMD's 9-series chipset, will be released in socket AM3+ as early as CeBIT 2011, in the first week of March. Socket AM3+ will also support existing Phenom II CPUs.

If the recent performance rumours hold true, the 8-core Zambezi CPU will be a massive 50% faster than AMD's current flagship Phenom II X6 1100T and Intel's Core i7 950 with as much as double the performance in heavily multi-threaded applications such as Rendering. This also means AMD have a fighting chance of regaining the performance crown from Intel's upcoming Core i7 990X. Of course, Intel's true competitor to Bulldozer only arrives in Q4 2011 in the form of LGA2011 based Sandy Bridge-EN.

AMD JUST LOST two more executives, COO Bob Rivet and VP of Corporate Strategy Marty Seyer. There is no official word as to why they left, and neither will be departing immediately.

There is no real news, official or unofficial, on the departures, why they happened, and who's initiative they were. Given that CEO Dirk Meyer left a few weeks ago under less than optimal circumstances, these latest two are not a huge shock. Neither the AMD press site or their investor relations site has anything posted on the departures, but AMD did file an SEC 8-K form about Bob Rivet yesterday.

It is said that both men will stay on for a bit to ease the transition, so it looks like these departures are on much better terms than the last one. The best we were able to find was that both decided to "pursue new opportunities", on the same day, with more or less the same transition plan.

In any case, it looks like there is a complete rethinking of AMD management going on in Austin right now. You can be assured that the changes near the top are far from over, and there will be an attendant reshuffling of power once things settle down. As of now, it looks like a pretty standard corporate shakeup precipitated by a senior executive leaving.S|A

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I heard something dropping...

IF AMD didnt adopt it you will never see UEFI-enabled AMD mobo from the mobo maker liao
I really hope the next gen mobo will support UEFI, i wanna oc with mouse! click click click!

ASRock is trying to be the first to produce an AM3+ motherboard supporting AMD "Zambezi" processors.

Based on artwork sent in by ASRock, the company is gearing up to be one of the first manufacturers to release a motherboard supporting AMD's next-generation "Zambezi" Fusion Black processors. The board will be named the ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 and based on the AMD 890FX + SB850 chipset.

Slated for a release by the end of February, the board's AMD3r2 (aka AMD3+) CPU socket will be compatible with existing socket AM3 Phenom II and Athlon II processors as well as the upcoming 8-core AMD3+ processors. For the gamer, the motherboard will support AMD Quad CrossFireX, 3-way CrossFireX and a two-card CrossFireX setup.


In addition, ASRock's 890FX Deluxe5 will include four DDR3 memory slots, two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots, two PCIe x1 slots, two legacy PCI slots and one PCIe x4 slot. There will also be four USB 3.0 ports (two on the back I/O, two on the front panel), eight SATA 6Gb/s ports, two IEEE 1394 ports, 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 audio codec), THX TruStudio PRO and Premium Blu-ray audio support.

Two other notable features are the board's UEFI BIOS interface which supports bootable hard drives larger than 2 TB. There's also a Turbo UCC feature that allows the user to overclock the CPU while maintaining low power consumption with the press of a button.

"Enabling Turbo UCC, it will automatically help you to unlock the extra CPU core to enjoy an instant performance boost, and the system performance will boost up by overclocking CPU frequency, memory frequency and all related voltage settings," reads the product description. "Different from normal high-energy consumption for overclocking or system upgrading process, ASRock Turbo UCC can allow an energy-saving overclocking or system upgrade computing operation."

ASRock's upcoming 890FX-based motherboard arrives just before AMD is expected to introduce the 9-series chipsets supporting "Zambezi" processors in Q2 2011. The lineup will start with the AMD 990FX chipset with AM3+ and AM3 support for high-end motherboards followed by the 990X chipset with AM3+ and AM3 support for mid-level boards. The 980G chipset will round out the 9-series, offering integrated graphics for low-end systems but will not support older AM3 processors.

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