Marty Seyer, senior vice president of the Commercial Business Unit for AMD, presented AMD’s roadmap for server processors, desktop processors, and mobile processors. The information that was presented this time around wasn’t very different compared to the last analyst day, however, some ulterior details were revealed.

The roadmap of AMD’s server solutions that was presented to us confirmed much of what we already knew. Barcelona, AMD’s first Quad core processor, is still on track for its release in the first half of 2007. Barcelona will be released for systems with 2 or more sockets while Budapest will be meant for single socket systems. The naming of the CPUs will go as follows: Opteron 1xxx for single socket systems, Opteron 2xxx for dual-socket systems, and Opteron 8xxx for 8-socket motherboards.

In early 2008 Barcelona will be “enhanced” with the Shanghai Core. Details regarding the enhancements are pretty scarce at the moment, however, it is expected that the new core will introduce a larger, shared L3 cache. The core is also expected to feature HyperTransport 3.0 which provides high-speed chip-to-chip and board-to-board communications. The TDP of the CPU is not expected to change and the adoption of DDR3 for the CPU is currently not on the horizon.

Again, there isn’t a large amount of new information for AMD’s Desktop Platform Roadmap that isn’t already known. Dual and Quad core solutions based on AMD’s next generation architecture are expected to be introduced in the second half of 2007. Towards the end of 2007 AMD will release Dual and Single Core processors aimed at the entry level segment of the market. In the second half of 2008 AMD will release a new family of processors based on socket AM3. These processors will have support for DDR3 memory and also support Single, Dual, or Quad Core.

AMD’s new platforms will begin to utilize HyperTransport 3.0 half-way through 2007. New chipsets will continue to support Crossfire technology for dual-graphics support. In the second half of 2007, AMD’s new chipsets will start coming with integrated graphics that support Microsoft DirectX 10, a definite plus for entry level systems.

The last roadmap of AMD is for their notebook solutions. In this case, the new processors will also be based off of a new architecture and are codenamed “Hawk.” Hawk CPUs will come supporting DDR2 Memory and will feature power management and battery life enhancements. In 2008 AMD will release a new processor code named Griffin. This new CPU will feature split power planes, which is the possibility to provide independent voltage to each core of a CPU, increasing energy efficiency. The CPU will also come with other power saving technologies ultimately increasing the battery life of Hawk-based laptops.

Laptop chipsets with integrated graphics that support DirectX 10 will debut towards the end of 2007. They will also feature DisplyPort technology and HyperTransport 3.0.