AMD FAD 2012
A theme of the new AMD is modularity. We've of course heard this before as it has always been a goal of AMD's to bring to market more modular, configurable designs, however this time the rhetoric is a lot more serious. In our earlier coverage we talked about future AMD SoCs allowing for a combination of AMD x86 CPU, GPU and 3rd party IP blocks. What AMD didn't mention during its Financial Analyst Day presentations however was how it would enable this pick-and-choose modular design. The secret, as it turns out, is in a new modular fabric that AMD is designing. It will take AMD until 2014 - 2015 to actually have the first, fully functional modular fabric in an SoC, but that's the...
Understanding AMD's Roadmap & New Direction
We've been providing live coverage of AMD's 2012 Financial Analyst Day from Santa Clara today, but if you want a summary of the company's strategy under new CEO Rory...
84 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's Tablet Architectures: Hondo at 4.5W, Future Sub-2W SoC
In its client roadmap AMD revealed Hondo, a 4.5W APU with 1 - 2 low voltage Bobcat cores and an on-die DX11 GPU built on a 40nm process. Hondo...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD is Ambidextrous, Not Married to Any One Architecture, ARM in the Datacenter?
We've been hammering this point home all day, but AMD just mentioned it again. The company wants to be a solutions provider, one that's ambidextrous and not married to...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's 2012 - 2013 Server Roadmap: Abu Dhabi, Seoul & Delhi CPUs
We've got a server roadmap update from AMD courtesy of its Financial Analyst Day here in Santa Clara, California. The changes to the 2012 - 2013 roadmap aren't all...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's 2012 - 2013 Client CPU/GPU/APU Roadmap Revealed
AMD gave us a quick update on its 2012 - 2013 client roadmap, mostly focusing on new CPU/APU releases although there's a brief mention of Sea Islands - the...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD & Compal Show Off 18mm Trinity Notebook
AMD's Trinity APU, due out near the middle of the year, will combine two Piledriver modules (four "cores") with an even beefier GPU. We've already laid out the general...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
What AMD Views as Important: Tablets, Servers, Notebooks & GPUs
The slide above really puts AMD's focus into perspective. AMD is mostly interested in markets that have high annual growth rates. Looking above you can see that pretty much...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD Nods at Shorter Design Cycles, More Synthesized Designs
The presentations we've seen from AMD thus far today haven't been very specific in terms of numbers, but there's a lot of reading between the lines that we can...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD: Flexible Around ISA
The slide above gives an example of the new agile/flexible AMD as it applies to the datacenter. Again, we're not seeing ARM, but we are seeing that AMD is...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2012 - Mark Papermaster, SVP & CTO Presentation
If you want to follow the CTO presentation we've been quoting from a lot today, check it out in the gallery below.
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD is Open to Integrating 3rd Party IP in Future SoCs
Don't expect AMD to go into much detail on this here at the Financial Analyst Day, but the slide above shows a definite step towards becoming a modern SoC...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD Outlines HSA Roadmap: Unified Memory for CPU/GPU in 2013, HSA GPUs in 2014
AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster just put up this slide that shows its HSA (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture) roadmap through 2014. This year we got Graphics Core Next, but next year...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's Rory Read Outlines AMD's Future Strategy
AMD's Financial Analyst Day is under way and we're currently hearing from Rory Read about the future of the company. Specifics and roadmaps will follow, but the fundamental shift...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
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