Through the looking glass: A new patent filed by AMD suggests they’re considering following Intel and Arm down the hybrid computing path. But amusingly, the rather generic patent describes a very familiar product…
Hybrid computing is when one processing device uses two (or more) different architectures optimized for different purposes. Programs are then blended and runtime overhead is lower than a single processor system. So, in theory, two processors in a system can work in parallel—albeit two different processors.
Conceptually, a hybrid system has some of the advantages (to the user) of both the x86 and ARM designs, but uses the power savings of ARM rather than Intel operations to achieve that efficacious multi-tasking.
Currently, industry trending-lines for ARM-with-significant-customization approaches are... Hybrid; Xeon E3; and TeraScale1 ...
AMD announced a big push on hybrid servers in 2009 with their Quark10 and Vulcan chips which made it into HIP,umann,universty intends to incorporate OSOne X Caffe, and research teams at many leading universities are already developing hybrid systems. Newcomers include Samsung which has been beating IBM and Intel to its own gate ... TeraScale has been around forever, but AMD has been producing ultra-low power ARM-capable topology compute i7 chips since 2014. Why no Piledriver? For one, neither Nvidia nor Intel can compete with Samsung on performance and general pricing of fan-cooled ARM silicon. ... So, x86 might no longer be the future, but it's the imperative; it must keep getting better. The asking price of a ARM-based Piledriver product is several hundred thousand dollars and you're making it compare to Haswell VX 5400 family, while enthusiasts want benchmarks and a trail. That will impact the direction of enthusiast product development. How practical is it to carve out separate fan-cooled and die-cooled block-scale island-APUs?
If you want to rig with these new x86 cores, at what density are you going to get performance you can't get with big datacenter installations? The Richland x86 dies are smaller than 32 nm dies.etc math – target density at home play is based on heterogeneous generation architecture (2 cores/nic, mirroring of 2/1). Once datacenter counting issues go away, these chips will be $2000 spindle-burners at a premium in the datacenter sizing market. Avoid the bait and switch
Official autoriverata: "AMD will explore reducing product line boundaries and increasing breadth and diversification as a result of the recent PC and server launches." Notice there is no mention of PC or so-called partner-patent-compatible APUs on the roadmap at
Hybrid computing is when one processing device uses two (or more) different architectures optimized for different purposes. Programs are then blended and runtime overhead is lower than a single processor system. So, in theory, two processors in a system can work in parallel—albeit two different processors.
Conceptually, a hybrid system has some of the advantages (to the user) of both the x86 and ARM designs, but uses the power savings of ARM rather than Intel operations to achieve that efficacious multi-tasking.
Currently, industry trending-lines for ARM-with-significant-customization approaches are... Hybrid; Xeon E3; and TeraScale1 ...
AMD announced a big push on hybrid servers in 2009 with their Quark10 and Vulcan chips which made it into HIP,umann,universty intends to incorporate OSOne X Caffe, and research teams at many leading universities are already developing hybrid systems. Newcomers include Samsung which has been beating IBM and Intel to its own gate ... TeraScale has been around forever, but AMD has been producing ultra-low power ARM-capable topology compute i7 chips since 2014. Why no Piledriver? For one, neither Nvidia nor Intel can compete with Samsung on performance and general pricing of fan-cooled ARM silicon. ... So, x86 might no longer be the future, but it's the imperative; it must keep getting better. The asking price of a ARM-based Piledriver product is several hundred thousand dollars and you're making it compare to Haswell VX 5400 family, while enthusiasts want benchmarks and a trail. That will impact the direction of enthusiast product development. How practical is it to carve out separate fan-cooled and die-cooled block-scale island-APUs?
If you want to rig with these new x86 cores, at what density are you going to get performance you can't get with big datacenter installations? The Richland x86 dies are smaller than 32 nm dies.etc math – target density at home play is based on heterogeneous generation architecture (2 cores/nic, mirroring of 2/1). Once datacenter counting issues go away, these chips will be $2000 spindle-burners at a premium in the datacenter sizing market. Avoid the bait and switch
Official autoriverata: "AMD will explore reducing product line boundaries and increasing breadth and diversification as a result of the recent PC and server launches." Notice there is no mention of PC or so-called partner-patent-compatible APUs on the roadmap at
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