We played the game “20 questions” with the AMD Opteron™ 4000 and 6000 Series processors (formerly code named “Magny Cours” and “Lisbon”) and it was one of the more popular server blog postings of the year last year.

We’re going to do it again with Bulldozer, so get your best server questions ready.

We will choose our favorite questions and turn them into this year’s 20 questions blog.

Don’t expect to see any answers to questions about launch date, pricing, benchmarks or partners.  Those things all have to wait for launch. The focus of this blog will be on servers and why we believe Bulldozer is ideally suited for server-class products.  Server products have longer lifecycles, longer buying cycles and greater architectural decisions that need to be made, which is why our focus is there.  However, because we plan for our client-side products to include Bulldozer-based offerings as well, much of the technology we’ll discuss here is being designed into our client products too.

We’ll try to get to all of your questions over the upcoming weeks, and hopefully give the designers and engineers an opportunity to answer some of them directly for you.  Issue your question through Twitter at #AMD20Q or the form below.

John Fruehe is the Director of Product Marketing for Server/Workstation products at AMD.  His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.