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Brand-new x86-compatible CPU architectures don't come along very often, but we've recently seen the first extensive details about two essentially new, clean-sheet designs from AMD, the high-end Bulldozer architecture and its smaller, low-power sibling, named Bobcat. We've already covered Bulldozer at some length, and now we're turning our attention to its pint-sized relative.

Brad Burgess, an AMD Fellow and the Chief Architect of the Bobcat core, offered the public a first glance at his team's creation last week at the Hot Chips conference, and AMD has since released the slides from that talk to the media. We didn't attend Burgess' presentation, but we did speak with Dina McKinney, Corporate Vice-President of Design Engineering at AMD, about both of the new architectures. We'll have a look at some of AMD's slides below and attempt to point out some of what you'll want to know about this promising new microprocessor.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/19531

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