October 2014 – At ARM Techcon AMD’s network products group was showing their new dual x86/ARM 64bit processor being used in and an advanced SDN application device. They were showing a 10GE switch that was enabled with NFV (network function virtualization). The device featured support for OpenStack in the networking space. The device was also…
February 2013 – This years Solid State Circuit conference featured a processor session that was focusing on increasing cache size and more cores at low power. The rise in data size being handled by these units, has driven the systems to explore new architectures that are much more throughput oriented rather than MIPS/GFLOPs oriented. This…
November 2012 – At the 2012 Server Design Summit, they held a panel on future directions for Servers amid the current industry discussion about power efficiency, throughput and performance. The panel was moderated by Sergis Mushell of Gartner and featured Ed Gasiorowski of Applied Micro, Jeff Underhill of ARM, David Borland of Calxeda, Devid Kassel…
October 29, 2012 – In San Francisco, AMD held a press conference announcing thier licensing of the ARM 64 bit core IP to be part of the Opteron product line. Planned to initial introduction in 2014, the ARM architecture is to be a supplemental tool in their server solution space. AMD x86 ARM Opteron Architecture…
May 2012 – Following along with the recent APU announcements for the processor line at AMD, they have released thier next generation of embedded processors called the R-Series. These APUs based on the 2nd generation Bulldozer architecture and the “piledriver” core. The GPU in the part has a new high speed direct memory interface along…