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On the other end ARM is also nibbling at Intel with AARCH64 chips that are closing on lower-end Core performance and building in server and high-end workstation
by api 10y ago
On the other end ARM is also nibbling at Intel with AARCH64 chips that are closing on lower-end Core performance and building in server and high-end workstation grade features like virtualization.
- arcanus 10y agoYep. And nvidia and amd are hurting Intel in terms of servers which are moving in many cases towards GPU for acceleration. Very interesting times in Silicon.
- tutanchamun 10y agoYeah, and AMD is the only company who can offer a high performance GPU together with a high performance x86 CPU. And APU's with HBM of course. Looking forward to what they can achieve now that they seem to be back (although most of the financial success probably lies with the server CPU Naples).
- Symmetry 10y agoOne can hope that in the long run we'll see more things with a SPRI-V back end and more libraries in that space to put AMD and NVidia GPUs on more equal footing.
- jabl 10y agoThey seem to be planning something like http://www.computermachines.org/joe/publications/pdfs/hpca2017_exascale_apu.pdf http://www.computermachines.org/joe/publications/pdfs/hpca20... Something like that could be a monster for HPC & ML type tasks. Provided AMD gets their software and tooling up to par; Nvidia doesn't rule HPC/ML because their GPU's are leaps and bounds ahead of AMD, but because CUDA is.. If so, might explain why they went with a (relatively) gimped vector FPU for Zen compared to Intel offerings (particularly the soon arriving Skylake Xeons with 512-bit wide SIMD).