AMD into ARM processor market targeting cloud server

AMD made a shocking announcement early this morning: AMD will design a processor based on the 64-bit arm architecture, starting with the cloud and data center Server domain. This will enable AMD to become the industry's only x86, ARM architecture products manufacturers.

In June this year, AMD announced the introduction of the arm CORTEX-A5 architecture in next year's APU Trustzone hardware security technology, and gradually expand to the entire product line. Although AMD has said that it will try a wider range of Third-party IP, we have always thought that the most is the use of ARM on a specific module, and did not expect AMD directly to do purely arm architecture of the processor.

AMD's first ARM processor is expected in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33721.html ">2014 years, will still be dressed Opteron hao Dragon brand." This 64-bit multi-core SOC optimizes the most-concentrated, energy-efficient servers in the data center, provides a modern computing experience, and integrates acquired Seamicro Freedom supercomputing Fiber interconnect technologies.

At the same time, AMD will continue to develop the x86 architecture, and is committed to providing customers with more flexible, with a wide range of options for computing ecosystems, covering Opteron x86 processors, server-level APU processors, HSA heterogeneous computing systems, 64-bit arm solutions and so on.

AMD also stressed that the introduction of ARM architecture is not but the hardware work, but also the need for software cooperation, so will increase investment, promote the development of the relevant application ecology.

As for why the development of ARM architecture processor, AMD said that its own and arm for the industry trends, change opportunities have a deep consensus, the two sides have announced today's secret cooperation for more than a year (did not disclose the specific authorized time), will continue to expand the field of cooperation in the future.

AMD believes that cloud computing is a killer application, the data center is the cornerstone of cloud services, intensive computing is the fastest growing server area in the data center, while the small height of parallel workloads spread over the traditional server architecture is not ideal, more suitable for the arm architecture to deal with. The data center will also be a key strategy for AMD in the future.

As for whether the arm will be introduced to the desktop and notebook processors, AMD did not give a clear answer, but said that the arm as a strategic partner, will be the relationship between the deepening of each other, but at present more focused on the arm in the server domain opportunities, AMD believes that it can provide unique and excellent solutions here. It is clear that AMD, ARM should be evaluating the possibility of cooperation in the consumer sector, the future is very likely to see the desktop AMD ARM processor.

AMD, arm in the server field of cooperation has been Dell, HP two major server manufacturers, as well as server system vendors Redhat support, the new ecosystem has been embryonic.

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