AMD will use APU to force cloud computing terminal

Cloud computing is the current popular it internet concept, multinational chip giant AMD recently signed a memorandum of cooperation with Beijing Cloud base, jointly announced that will set up a cloud computing joint laboratory.　　Speaking of the cloud computing cooperation, AMD Global senior vice president, Greater China President Deng that cloud computing to achieve through the cloud, as the basic application of IT technology, the real integration of CPU and GPU Low-power, High-performance APU (acceleration processor), will play a key role in the cloud computing terminal. Cloud computing breeds billions of industrial values Deng that the cloud computing industry will be the future of the entire IT industry a major development direction. It is reported that the Beijing municipal government launched last year, "Xiangyun project" as an example, it will revolve around the five key development areas of cloud computing: chip and software platform, cloud service platform, terminal products, network products, solutions.　　Its goal is: by 2015, the three types of cloud computing services (Iaas, Paas, SaaS) formed 50 billion yuan industrial scale, led the industrial chain to form 200 billion yuan output value. Talking about the specific utility of cloud computing, Deng points out that cloud computing does not require a large amount of input from companies or users to traditional models of network building, network equipment, service applications, and security. The concept of cloud is that users don't need to know what's behind it, it's just a simple, nice, friendly Man-machine interface.　　"In order to meet the user's pursuit, enterprise implementation of cloud computing needs strong hardware protection." AMD has always had a history of innovation in the IT industry, Deng said. Throughout the development of the PC, from AMD in 2003, the introduction of the first 64-bit speed Dragon processor, to dual-core, three-core, quad-core multi-core processors, to the current maximum of 12 core server processor, as well as to promote the CPU, GPU truly integrated into the APU and other innovative technology, AMD is a leader in graphics processor technology and supports each DirectX. "With these leading technologies, AMD has great confidence in the future of innovation-cloud computing, and it will exert a lot of power."　　"Deng stressed that there are more than 2 million AMD processors in the Global cloud computing environment, including Microsoft's cloud services platform Windowsazure also adopted the AMD Hao long server processor technology." Multi-core CPU and GPU fusion is the key to "cloud innovation" Deng says the best way for companies to build cloud computing platforms is to leave enough "performance headroom" to cope with the rush-hour load, as the end users of cloud computing tend to have fluctuating demands.　　The best way to have the "performance margin" is to have more cores for the CPU, each CPU kernel power down, more CPU core means better energy efficiency, cloud service providers therefore do not need to purchase too many server nodes, greatly saving the cost. AMD has the advantage. It is reported that AMD Hao long multi-core processor core number of up to 12 cores, the minimum power consumption can reach 32 watts, bring ultra-high energy efficiency and low intoThis。 Later this year AMD will also launch the "Bulldozer" architecture of the 16-core server processor, the performance of a significant increase, and low power consumption.　　In addition, the AMD server platform has more flexibility, from 1 to 4, to deploy flexibly under the same architecture, helping users maintain data center consistency and compatibility. As another important part of cloud computing, the development of cloud terminals also affects the consumer's application experience of cloud computing. According to Deng, AMD has a big advantage in cloud terminals. The APU Accelerator processor, which revolutionized CPU and GPU on a single chip, achieved significantly reduced power consumption and significantly improved performance. Amdapu supports GPU acceleration and heterogeneous computing, not only to play around with existing applications, but also to meet future applications. In the cloud terminal, in addition to desktop PCs and laptops, AMD is developing and perfecting a series of applications based on embedded technology, such as tablet computer, network TV and various multimedia terminals.　　In addition, AMD recently launched two new embedded G Series APU, thermal design Power consumption (TDP) are 5.5 watts and 6.4 watts, respectively, compared to the previous product power consumption reduction of 39%, this power consumption is very low APU is very small, no fan embedded system ideal choice. Commercial newspaper reporter Zhang Yiwang/wen and photo