Issue 2 of the Athlon and Phenom 2 terminated

Supply of Bulldozer processors began in September of this year. , But the new chips are already a lot of negative reviews. At the same time, oddly enough, also managed to establish excellent sales growth. Therefore, cessation of supply by AMD 45nm Phenom II processors and Athlon II ( except for one model Phenom II) is a logical step.

The exception was a Phenom II X4 960T on kernel Zosma, which AMD has decided not to leave until. Of the two brands excluded - Phenom and Athlon 2 2 the latter was the most successful. Introduced back in 1999, he experienced a lot of processor architectures and models. Particularly successful was the K8 architecture, which brought the company a leader in the opposition with Intel, while the latter has not released the Core 2 Duo Conroe architecture.

Now, though, and AMD can not compete with Intel in absolute performance, she released a very successful fast-track processing elements (APU) Llano chip with integrated graphics, up to the level where solutions from Intel yet fall short. However, AMD has repeatedly produced initially seemed weak processor architectures, which are then brought to mind, and proved worthy of the products, so the Bulldozer, in the long term, still has hope for rehabilitation.

On the other hand, became aware of the significant. changes in strategy, AMD. In particular, the company plans to abandon the technological race with his arch- rival Intel in the PC and. server hardware. And focus on the mobile direction in which Intel has failed to provide any competitive solutions. Details are expected in February 2012.

According to the materials Softpedia. com ( translate oszone. net) and NStor. ru.