[GRLUG] AMD rumors

[Richard Nienhuis]

AMD has already said they are going to get into the ARM market.  And
servers are probably going to start swinging that way within the next 3-4
years.  Intel will probably still be king though.


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Cprossu <cprossu at gmail.com> wrote:

> This all seems very odd to me.. I almost bet money that Jim Keller has
> something to do with it (Recently being brought back to AMD to sort things
> out), and I really look forward to AMD's further offerings as a result. I
> do not see them leaving x86_64 anytime soon though, but I do at least
> expect some really efficient and powerful cpu's as opposed to the longer
> pipeline designs they've been offering as of late. An architecture change
> could happen though, and I'd expect it to be nothing short of
> revolutionary, I mean this is the great Jim Keller who brought us the DEC
> Alpha, the AMD Athlon, and the AMD Hammer series!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
>
>> Though not formally announced, Semiaccurate seems to have learned
>> that AMD is leaving the X86 server business.
>>
>>
>> http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/19/amd-kills-off-big-cores-kaveri-steamroller-and-excavator/
>>
>> Casey
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