Over the past few months, it has become clear that AMD's recent CEO Rory Read and his new management team have been hard at work utilizing precious business hours to restructure the company from the ground up for more efficient market delivery, execution and product competitiveness.
Not only do these aggressive plans manifest themselves in AMD's refocused x86-based APU and server strategies moving forward into 2013, but also in its Graphics Core Next (GCN) architectural plans for its primary GPU business. During AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2012, the company took no hesitation to present its roadmap in the GPU front extending all the way into late 2013. At the very top of its Client and Graphics Roadmap depicts the 28nm Southern Islands GPU family being replaced with a new 28nm Sea Islands GPU family sometime in 2013.
