VR-Zone deletes AMD 2010 roadmap pics but it's too late!

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:29

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Although VR-Zone has let the cat out of the bag when it comes to AMD's roadmap and has now deleted them, presumably at AMD's request, the screenshots of slides showing AMD's 6-core processor roadmap has raced around the web faster than a screaming Intel Core i7.

Tech site VR-Zone was first to publish leaked screenshots from an AMD slideset, showing a range of six-core processors in the mix that are slower in clock speed than Intel's Core iX range of processors but come with more internal cores.

Unfortunately for VR-Zone, someone at AMD must have gotten their pants into a tizzy and ordered VR-Zone to take the pics down, or if that speculatory speculation is off the mark, VR-Zone has of its own volition taken the offending screenshots down - but you can be the judge of that.

Problem is, this is the Internet we're talking about, and once published, Pandora's box opens up and it's impossible to put all those 10-foot blue people back in.

The good folk over at Softpedia still have the pics up, along with some details on what chips the slides expose as coming to market, no doubt much to AMD's dismay and likely Intel's interest, among other sites that were quick to copy the slides and to put them on the web for all to see.

As the softies at Softpedia proclaim, we're looking at chips that have HyperTransport 3.0 running at a rather speedy 2,000MHz (or 4.0GT/s) and 'enabling a maximum CPU bandwidth of 37.3GB/s'.

Sounds fast.

A stack of new Phenom II processors are on the way, with some arriving, and some departing, with the Phenom II X6 and the T X4 series to be AMD's main weaponry against the Intel Core iSeries onslaught.

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