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Another possibility, with the power being open and having a market in servers is easic which offers chip manufacturing technology that is fit for lower volumes,
by hershel 12y ago
Another possibility, with the power being open and having a market in servers is easic which offers chip manufacturing technology that is fit for lower volumes, with easier customizability option, to offer a customizable server processor.
In the places this fits, it could offer substantial improvement. for example 10-100x performance/cost+power for in-memory cache servers.
And they're working on making this tech programmable while still keeping this same cost levels.
And all this in the context of moore's law grinding to a halt. So definetly ,intel will have a hard time ahead.
EDIT: it appears that the power8 support an open extension interface to other chips(CAPI). Which means will see such accelerators sooner than later.
- _delirium 12y agoDo you mean ASIC for the coprocessors, or for customizing the main design? The latter isn't strictly impossible, but it'd be a pretty major undertaking to take the POWER8 design and put it on an ASIC. The reference design, at least, is intended for a 22nm SOI process, and it's not a trivial port to put it on something else.