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AMD Says It's 'Ambidextrous,' Hints It May Offer ARM Chips

Posted by timothy on from the raise-your-arm-shyly dept.

J. Dzhugashvili writes "Today at its Financial Analyst Day, AMD made statements that strongly suggest it plans to offer ARM-based chips alongside its x86 CPUs and APUs. According to coverage of the event, top executives including CEO Rory Read talked up an 'ambidextrous' approach to instruction-set architectures. One executive went even further: 'She said AMD will not be "religious" about architectures and touted AMD's "flexibility" as one of its key strategic advantages for the future.' The roadmaps the execs showed focused on x86 offerings, but it seems AMD is overtly setting the stage for a collaboration with ARM."

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  1. let's hope that... by w.hamra1987 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    this means less intel in the market and more AMD!!!!

    though seriously, how good is the ARM architecture today? havent tried it yet, does it provide comparable performance to an intel processor of similar price tag?

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    1. Re:let's hope that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Its also worth noting that ARM has never been about performance until the semi-recent smart phone (mobile computing) surge. And even today, performance takes a backseat to power consumption. And it is here where ARM has always led the way. ARM vs Intel, ARM provides better price, better consumption, and very competative performance, albeit second place. But given the market to whch ARM is primarily focused on, ARM easily scores the win; in spite of Intels best efforts.

      For those doing more traditional embedded development, Intel's offers are likely front runners. For those participating in the mobile computer segment, ARM, by far, is the very clear winner.

    2. Re:let's hope that... by visualight · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I told you already, Debian is the best at updates even across multiple versions. Also, OpenSuse and Fedora are where experiments happen and I doubt an "experienced Linux Admin" would be using them for something really important -unless she has the requisite depth to deal with a little breakage during an upgrade.

      And posting again and again and again the same rant about an ABI isn't going to change the FACT that a stable ABI for drivers would make things worse for everyone. You keep trying to make comparisons to Windows in areas where it makes no sense at all to compare the two.

      What's it going to take for you to realize that nobody cares if Linux gains market share on the desktop? You're making arguments (for years now) based the assumption that market share is a goal when in fact no one has such a goal.

      Your perspective on this is so wrong and you've been corrected so many times by so many people I can't help but wonder if you've got some kind of learning disability or OCD or something. Seriously, not trying to be insulting at all. You've apparently started down this road in 2004 with some wrong assumptions that you just can't let go of, and that's really why you're so frustrated now.

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  2. Could we have a hybrid? by mehrotra.akash · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A PC(or laptop) running Windows 8(or any OS which supports both x86 and ARM) powered by a processor having full x86-64 support, and a low power ARM with a GPU capable of basic stuff like handling browsing and media playback
    So, when you switch to a high requirement program (Gaming,encoding,VS,etc) the x86 cores turn on like a coprocessor and the work is handed to them
    The ARM handles the UI and other stuff