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They seem to have plans to move to a modern GlobalFoundries 14nm process, so it might be more competitive when that happens. The decision to use an older, in-or
by tcoppi 10y ago
They seem to have plans to move to a modern GlobalFoundries 14nm process, so it might be more competitive when that happens. The decision to use an older, in-order core is probably based on the fact that their cache and memory controller design is pretty bad, and unable to even feed the slower cores as it is, so faster cores would be a waste. It turns out it is really hard to shove a lot of highly performant cores in a single package, it is much easier to shove a lot of crappy ones.
- mtgx 10y agoI'm curious how AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3 will fare. It should be out later this year on 14nm.
- tcoppi 10y agoIt will be interesting to see how that one goes, indeed. I think their timing could be unfortunate, however, given AMD is about to reenter the server market in a big way in the same timeframe.
- smellf 10y agoHow so?
- wmf 10y agoBy the time X-Gene 3 is out I'm sure they'll be saying "wait for X-Gene 4".