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2010 & Beyond

  • Windows "7" (Code names: Vienna and Windows Seven) is tentatively scheduled for release sometime January 2010. Windows "7" will be a major release like Windows Vista. Some possible features include a new Windows Explorer, close integration with Windows Live, Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, "Hypervisor" (Windows Virtualization) technologies, and WinFS (Windows Future Storage) technologies. It might also utilize a modular approach such that only the modules chosen during installation are actually installed. The client version is supposed to be available in 32 and 64-bit editions; the server version will only be available in 64-bit.
  • Intel's Sandy Bridge (previously code named Gesher) is scheduled for release sometime in 2010. Sandy Bridge will be a new microprocessor architecture and is the successor to Nehalem. Sandy Bridge will be manufactured using the 32 nm processes. Sandy Bridge will probably integrate Intel's Larrabee GPGPU.
  • Intel Larabee is expected to be released in 2010. Larabee will contained integrated graphics and CPU cores. Intel has stated that the chip will be for use in scientific research, data mining, visualization, analytics, and other highly computing-intensive applications. It also expected to directly compete against ATI and nVidia's graphics processors. Intel has said that Larabee will be the company's first tera-scale processor, one capable of one trillion floating point operations (teraflops) per second.
  • Intel Itanium (Code name: Poulson) is expected sometime in either 2010 or 2011 (but possibly as early as 2009). Poulson will be the successor to Intel Itanium (Tukwila) and be a major change in the microarchitecture for the Itanium line of processors. Poulson is expected to be built using a 32 nm process effectively skipping the 45 nm process for the Itanium series. It will have more cores and high performance threads than Tukwila. It is expected to have roughly 8 billion transistors or 4 times as many as Tukwila CPU's.
  • Intel Itanium (Code name: Kittson) will be released after Intel Itanium (Poulson).
  • AMD plans to launch a new 6-8 core Opteron processor code named Sao Paolo in the first half of 2010. It be manufactured using a 45 nm process and will feature 12MB L3 cache, 4x HyperTransport 3.0 links, both registered and unregistered DDR3, and AMD-V. It will include support for something AMD calls Probe Filter which will increase performance in multi CPU systems by reducing cache coherency traffic. AMD will also include HTC which is a new power control method for over and underclocking the CPU on-demand. Sao Paolo will also infuse APML (Advanced Platform Management Link) which is similar to Intel's vPro motherboard technology intended for enterprises.
  • AMD intends to launch a new 12 core Opteron CPU code named Magny Cours in the first half of 2010. It will be identical in features to Sao Paolo.
  • AMD is planning to launch a new server/workstation platform code named Maranello for Opteron processors in the first half of 2010. Maranello will have support for 4x HT-3 links and DDR3. It will probably be launched along with the Sao Paolo and Magny Cours CPU's. It will introduce a new socket called Socket G34 and include the AMD RD890 chipset.
  • Windows "8" is expected to be released after 2012+.