AMD Next Generation CPU: Korona-Review

AMD high-end next generation for the desktop platform, which has code name "Korona", and then fuse to bridge north of the processor silicon. At this time, "Scorpius" platform, which is partially open, and then a little older, two-chip platform processor and chipset IMC. PCI Express root complex is still in the chipset. Leo including the FX series will come "Zambezi" AMD and 9-series chip sets and socket am3 desktop +. AMD is in line platform which provides pass-through cost segment of the mainstream, "Lynx" platform, which is approved for this type of dual-GPU, where the APU chip packet processor core, IMC, PCI Express root complex, and the GPU.

Platform crown in 2012, a new processor architecture called "Piledriver", it is still able to be discharged "bulldozed." Piledriver not know anything but a luxury to be based processor code-named "Komodo" and 10 core packet. Since this is the refresh key location platform, Korona will introduce a new socket called FM2, it is logical to assume that the new socket am3 + compatible.

Korona combines Komodo with CPU-D4 Hudson Fusion Controller Hub (FCH), the only bridge south of the glorified, and A75 and the Intel chip set Controller Hub (PCH). Hudson packets D4 at least 8 SATA 6 Gb / s with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, built-in USB 3.0 controller with 4 ports and 10 USB 2.0 ports.

Because data for this platform, we believe that Komodo is intended to compete in the Ivy Bridge Intel LGA1155 processors, or Sandy Bridge-E, if you know how many channel DDR3 memory will Komodo. This does not mean that they do not have to wait for the Zambezi, "2012" is indefinite period of time. For all you know, the Crown, or even released at the end of 2012 ..