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I'm interested to hear about this as well. I might be confabulating a bit, but just a bit, but I remember hearing Keller say that Zen is structured that way tha
by Keyframe 4y ago
I'm interested to hear about this as well. I might be confabulating a bit, but just a bit, but I remember hearing Keller say that Zen is structured that way that there's nothing stopping them creating a different ISA frontend and say putting out an Arm processor instead of X64. That it actually wouldn't be much.
- jacquesm 4y agoMy guess was that that was a reference to the PSP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
- Keyframe 4y agoSo, AMD's IME?
- jacquesm 4y agoYes, exactly. Assuming that was what it referred to, it makes good sense to me.
- deaddodo 4y agoNo, AMD’s Zen had a sister uArch that was ARM-based[1]. They were originally targeting it for servers, but ended up releasing only one or two fairly bog standard ARM cores before abandoning the venture. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12
- jacquesm 4y agoYou're right. I read the anandtech interview and it is clear that that is what he's referring to.