The new 32nm SOI Bulldozer-based AMD Opteron™ Processors will power the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project. Per the TOP500 Supercomputers list, more than two million AMD Opteron cores power many of the world’s fastest supercomputers across 14 countries.

With performance, efficiency, and power optimization as top priorities, AMD’s innovative Bulldozer architecture is built on 32nm SOI. As of the Fall of 2011, AMD is shipping both client and server CPUs based on the new Bulldozer architecture. The first of the new APUs (CPU + GPU) incorporating Bulldozer modules will start shipping in 2012. …

Overclocked to 8.429 GHz , the AMDFX (Bulldozer) CPU has entered the Guinness World Book of Records for “Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor”. On 32nm SOI from GlobalFoundries, the 8-core FX will launch in Q4 2011, targeting gamers.

Calling it “a monumental moment for the industry”, AMD has begun revenue shipments of its new  32nm-SOI  “Interlagos” processors, the first CPUs based on the “Bulldozer” architecture. Fabbed by GlobalFoundries, “Interlagos” is the codename for AMD’s 12- or 16-core 32nm SOI server processor based on the new “Bulldozer” processor core.  It carries the AMD Opteron™ …

The International Solid-State Circuits Conference – better known as ISSCC – is of course where the big guns show us their big advances at the chip level. At the most recent conference, held a few weeks ago in San Francisco, advances that leveraged SOI were once again at the forefront. As always, performance gains generate …

Website: http://isscc.org 20-24 February 2011, San Francisco, CA ISSCC – the International Solid-State Circuits Conference – is the flagship conference of the Solid-State Circuits Society. It is widely considered the premier forum for presenting advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. Here is a round-up of this year’s major SOI-based papers. Session 4: Enterprise Processors & …

The AMD PR folks are calling their new Fusion APUs the era of  “Personal Supercomputing”  – and its flagships are on 32nm SOI   We’ve been hearing about these revolutionary chips for years now – the “Fusion” of graphics chips – GPUs – and CPUs on a single piece of silicon, which they’re referring to as …

In addition to announcements of extensions of its existing platforms, AMD issued its SOI roadmap news (by codename). Plans for 2010 include: • “Danube” – mainstream notebook platform featuring the first AMD mobile quad-core processors; • “Nile” -  ultrathin notebook platform. • “San Marino” and “Maranello” – 8- and 12-core processors for the volume server …

New 45nm chips from AMD (which builds all its 64-bit microprocessors on SOI): • Athlon™ II X2 250 processor for mainstream consumers and the Phenom™ II X2 550 Black Edition processor, the first ever dual-core AMD Phenom II CPU. • the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor family, to address rising demand for increased performance balanced by …

New from AMD (which builds all its 64-bit microprocessors on SOI): • the four-core Phenom™ II X4 (up to 3GHz) and Black Edition (3.2GHz) and the triple-core Phenom™ II X3 (up to 2.8GHz) on 45nm SOI, which are at the heart of the “Dragon” platform (with headroom for overclocking), targeting demanding gaming and consumer applications; …