AMD: Three Cores Will Continue to Exist

As a unique weapon of AMD, the three-core processor has made great achievements in the competition with Intel. With the highlights of the three-twos, open nuclear, etc., it attracted a lot of attention, and AMD naturally will not easily give up this unique advantage. How to build a three-core in the “bulldozer” era is still unknown.

Matt Davis, director of marketing for AMD’s desktop products, said in an interview: "AMD launched a three-core processor after conducting in-depth market research on PC usage. We found that the three cores touched the 'sweets' of most users. In most cases, Next, dual-core computing can meet the needs of the vast majority of users, and an additional core is used to service the operating system. The most significant bottleneck in PC applications does not exist.

Matt Davis acknowledged that "3" is indeed somewhat different for the number of processor cores, but he later emphasized: "The three-core processor will continue to meet the needs of customers and consumers and provide outstanding value at a reasonable price. As long as the industry The market believes these products are valuable and they are needed, and AMD will satisfy them."

AMD's existing processor architecture easily masks some cores and converts the quad cores into triple cores and even dual cores. However, the future bulldozer architecture will use a modular design, and each module contains two less complete cores. To obtain a three-core or even a five-core system, you need to mask an integer core in the module.

Of course, the transition of the architecture will take a long time, so at least for the foreseeable future, the Athlon II X3 series will still exist on the market.