AMD ready to flex its ARMs

https://amd-now.com/amd-ready-to-flex-its-arms/

by basilgohar • 5 years ago

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amd-now.com

ipsum2• 5 years ago

blogspam of: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-we-stand-ready-to-make...

basilgohar4• 5 years ago

Via https://wccftech.com/x86-champion-amd-is-ready-to-make-arm-c... no less. I link both sources.

The main additional point I raised was linking the timing of the announcement to nVidia's struggles with their Arm acquisition, which I felt was relevant and hadn't found mentioned elsewhere.

SkyMarshal• 5 years ago

That is indeed interesting. I didn't realize Nvidia's acquisition may be stalling due to the EU. I had rather hoped it would go through in order to create three viable companies offering both state-of-the-art CPU and GPU options.

silisili2• 5 years ago

Interesting. So, Qualcomm has forever basically relied on their GPU prowess to remain king of mass market mobile chips. Mali doesn't really compare.

As I remember (which may be wrong), AMD designed Adreno for Qualcomm. Also, they're apparently working with Samsung now to design a GPU for Exynos.

While not explicitly clear, wondering if this a potential play to compete directly with Qualcomm et al in that space, or purely server oriented.

basilgohar4• 5 years ago

AMD has demonstrated a strong desire and commitment to custom semiconductor designs beyond the traditional desktop, server, and mobile segments – this is best demonstrated in their multi-generational design wins in the recent few Playstation and XBox consoles. And there are more examples if we look a little further.

newusertoday• 5 years ago

Qualcomm has mostly relied on its integrated modem to remain king. It is good in other things as well cpu/gpu/adsp/pmic etc. in general overall solution rather than the chip.

AMD did not designed adreno for Qualcomm. AMD acquired ATI and as part of acquisition it also got mobile gpu(adreno) which was designed for handhelds. It later decided it does not have much use of it and Qualcomm acquired the ip along with people at peanuts.

silisili2• 5 years ago

Any more info? From what I can tell AMD acquired Imageon in 2006, and sold to Qualcomm in 2009. Adreno is an anagram of radeon, afterall.

IntelMiner• 5 years ago

It's a shame AMD never kept up making its own "Seattle" ARM chips. They looked very promising (and, in theory quite cheap!)

They even had relatively quick full upstream kernel support, absolutely unheard of in the ARM world

fmajid• 5 years ago

I don't know. The AMD A1100 series was underwhelming when compared to their competition.

hajile• 5 years ago

I'd be interested in a high-clockspeed desktop chip based on ARM's X2 design.

X2 should be nearly as fast as Zen per clock. It could be a great dev platform if they could ramp the clocks up.

xedrac• 5 years ago

I wish they'd "stand ready" to make their own GPUs in sufficient quantities. Jokes aside, ARM chips are great but I'd also like to see what they could do with RISC-V.

snvzz• 5 years ago

AIUI "not x86" was assumed to be ARM.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was not.

AMD ready to flex its ARMs

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