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AMD Designing All-New CPU Cores For ARMv8, X86
crookedvulture (1866146) writes "AMD just revealed that it has two all-new CPU cores in the works. One will be compatible with the 64-bit ARMv8 instruction set, while the other is meant as an x86 replacement for the Bulldozer architecture and its descendants. Both cores have been designed from the ground up by a team led by Jim Keller, the lead architect behind AMD's K8 architecture. Keller worked at Apple on the A4 and A4 before returning to AMD in 2012. The first chips based on the new AMD cores are due in 2016."
Which is why consoles don't use AMD at all. Oh wait...
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Excuse me for injecting a note of reality into your rant, but I thought consoles care about heat. Also, aren't "thermals" and "power efficiency" the same thing? Or does that get in the way of your rhetoric.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.