The long road ahead
Having covered what we can expect from AMD at the start of 2009 in the first part of this interview series, Pat Moorhead - AMD's VP of advanced marketing - details the product roadmap for the rest of the year and into 2010 and 2011.
Tellingly, Moorhead defines success in terms of delivery - both in terms of timing and quality - something it has struggled to achieve since the ATI acquisition in 2006. He states that there was an improvement this year but sets expectations for further improvement in future years.
He goes on to talk about the Istanbul server platform, which will feature a six core CPU and defines success in 2009 as successful delivery of Phenom 2/Dragon, the Yukon/Congo ultra-thin notebook platform, Istanbul and the Tigris mainstream notebook platform.
Moving into 2010 and onwards we hear about yet more cores on the server parts, the move to 32nm manufacturing and bringing quad-core to notebooks. In 2011 we're told to expect the arrival of the APU as well as a brand-new CPU architecture.
You may find it useful to have access to the roadmap slides AMD published at its recent investor day when you watch this final part of the interview, which can be found here.
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