AMD opens kimono on chip futures a little more
The best way to protect corporate secrets is to announce them at a tech conference in Japan, which is why word is only just arriving of AMD's February reveal of a clustering roadmap. Consumer and commercial business lead Junji Hayashi told the PC Cluster Consortium workshop in Osaka that the 2016 release CPU cores (an ARMv8 …
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Tuesday 31st March 2015 08:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
"its SkyBridge strategy, announced in May 2014, in which ARM and x86 SoCs will be pin-compatible, so motherboard-makers only need to work up a single design."
Recycling the strategy from the early Athlon days, where it borrowed (licenced) the pin bus from DEC's Alpha 21264 aka EV6?
Better luck this time chaps.
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Tuesday 31st March 2015 15:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
"I can't imagine the m/b manufacturers getting too excited about reduced dev costs on an alpha compatible boards"
Samsung (an Alpha CPU licencee) quite liked it. At the time they weren't well known as a manufacturer of computer innards, but they put some nice entry(ish) level (single or dual socket) server motherboards together. E.g. UP1000, UP1100, UP1500. Ref:
http://alasir.com/articles/alpha_history/alpha_21264.html
Compatible hardware is one thing, but available software is, as noted, another thing altogether.
"I can for an ARM compat board."
Me too. And now the world and his dog has realised that ther is more to life than Window boxes. Hence, hopefully they'll have better luck this time (not that luck is anything to do with it when the opposition is Intel and MS).
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