AMD Announces First ARM Processor 168
MojoKid writes "AMD's Andrew Feldman announced today that the company is preparing to sample its new eight-core ARM SoC (codename: Seattle). Feldman gave a keynote presentation at the fifth annual Open Compute Summit. The Open Compute Project (OCP) is Facebook's effort to decentralize and unpack the datacenter, breaking the replication of resources and low volume, high-margin parts that have traditionally been Intel's bread-and-butter. AMD is claiming that the eight ARM cores offer 2-4x the compute performance of the Opteron X1250 — which isn't terribly surprising, considering that the X1250 is a four-core chip based on the Jaguar CPU, with a relatively low clock speed of 1.1 — 1.9GHz. We still don't know the target clock speeds for the Seattle cores, but the embedded roadmaps AMD has released show the ARM embedded part actually targeting a higher level of CPU performance (and a higher TDP) than the Jaguar core itself."
Re:Despite it's name (Score:5, Funny)
The question is whether Jaguar itself is really 64-bit, or if it's just the graphics processor that's 64-bit and the rest is 32-bit.
Re:ARM processing (Score:4, Funny)
Re:ARM processing (Score:5, Funny)
I believe you've read it wrong. Basically, AMD actually traveled back in time to develop the first ARM processor.
No - its making a food processor for cannibals. The design brief was that you should be able to process a whole arm.
Re:Pretty low bar... (Score:4, Funny)
ARM chips are currently outselling x86 ships
That doesn't surprise me at all. It might be interesting to have an ARM-powered x86 ship though.