AMD has released an updated roadmap which supports the claim that by 2011, the company promises to debut its new Scorpius platform. The significance of this platform is that it should replace Leo, a Phenom-based platform.

Scorpius is powered by Zambezi processors that will feature up to 8 Bulldozer CPU cores (octal-core), and this definitely means that hexa-core and quad-core variations of Bulldozer are possible.

AMD's 32nm Bulldozer comes with L3 cache and will support DDR3 memory, but the company didn’t want to disclose how much. The interesting part is that it will support the AM3 r2 socket. The revision should be similar to the Socket AM3 that we use today, but you still might need an updated motherboard to support it.

The chipset that will support the new processors is the AMD 890FX/GX+SB850, and it should appear by the middle of 2010.