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The AMD Bobcat Family 14h is a microarchitecture created by AMD aimed at low-power/low-cost market. It was revealed during a speech from AMD executive vice-president Henri Richard in Computex 2007 and was put into production Q1 2011. One of the major supporters was executive vice-president Mario A. Rivas who felt it was difficult to compete in the x86 market with a single core optimized for the 10-100 Watts range and actively promoted the development of the simpler core with a target range of 1-10 Watts. In addition, it was believed that the core could migrate into the hand-held space if the power consumption can be reduced to less than 1 W. ''Bobcat'' cores are used together with GPU cores in accelerated processing units (APUs) under the "''Fusion''" brand. A simplified architecture diagram was released at AMD's Analyst Day in November 2009. This is similar in concept with earlier AMD research in 2003,〔AMD 2003 Microprocessor Forum Slides: (Slide 11 ) and (Slide 22 )〕 detailing the specifications and advantages of extending x86 "everywhere". == Design == The ''Bobcat'' x86 CPU core design has since been completed and implemented in AMD APU processor products with a TDP of 18 W or less. The core is targeted at low-power markets like netbooks/nettops, ultra-portable laptops, consumer electronics and the embedded market. Since its launch, Bobcat-based CPUs have also been used by OEMs on larger laptops. Architecture specifics: * 64-bit core * Out-of-order execution * Advanced branch predictor * Dual x86 instruction decoder * 64-bit integer unit with two ALUs * Floating-point unit with two 64-bit pipes * Single channel 64-bit memory controller * 32 KiB instruction + 32 KiB data L1 cache * 512 KiB - 1 MiB L2 cache * MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A * GPU: TeraScale 2 In February 2013, AMD detailed plans for a successor to ''Bobcat'' codenamed ''Jaguar''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bobcat (microarchitecture)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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