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AnandTech Interviews Mike Clark, AMD’s Chief Architect of Zen
- neogodless 5y agoI thought this Q&A in particular would be of interest to many. > Alongside Zen we learned about Project Skybridge, the ability to put an x86 SoC and an Arm SoC on the same socket. Do you know how far along the Arm version of Skybridge, we know as K12, was in development before AMD went full bore for Ryzen? > Although I've worked on x86 obviously for 28 years, it's just an ISA, and you can build a low-power design or a high-performance out any ISA. I mean, ISA does matter, but it's not the main component - you can change the ISA if you need some special instructions to do stuff, but really the microarchitecture is in a lot of ways independent of the ISA. There are some interesting quirks in the different ISAs, but at the end of the day, it's really about microarchitecture.
- ksec 5y agoThis has been repeatedly stated for nearly 6 years if not longer. You can bet most on HN commenting on hardware dont even read Anandtech. Which really lower the chance of having any quality discussions.
- yunohn 5y ago> This has been repeatedly stated for nearly 6 years if not longer. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ > You can bet most on HN commenting on hardware dont even read (…) Full agreed. Even though commenting RTFA is considered bad manners on HN, I’ve seen innumerable misguided comments that result from not having done so.