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> Originally they were going to have a Zen variant that ran ARM. Was AMD's K12 related to Zen in any way? AMD's predecessor to that, the Opteron A1100 series,
by DCKing 6y ago
> Originally they were going to have a Zen variant that ran ARM.
Was AMD's K12 related to Zen in any way? AMD's predecessor to that, the Opteron A1100 series, was bog standard Cortex A57 cores. I figured K12 would be at best an evolution of a standard ARM design, but if it was more that would be very interesting. Would love to know more about this.
- deaddodo 6y agoIt wasn't a Zen variant; but the K12 was intended to be AMD's custom ARM uArch aimed at the server space. So there's a good chance it would have been focused on performance over power efficiency.