Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced the construction of an eight-core ARM System-on-Chip processor (SoC) that will be available from March.
This is the processor series Opteron A, also known by the name «Seattle» and technology partreatments 28nm. The first model will concern the A1100 processor that will have four or eight cores based on its standard Cortex-A57 of ARM. That is, it will be high performance ARM kernels in 64bit that will be clocked at least at 2GHz. The processors of the series will have 2 cache level on 4MB and cache level 3 on 8MB, which will share both two processor cores in all CPU cores.
The new AMD processor series will support memory dual-channel DDR3 or DDR4 size up to 128GB. In addition, it will have a wide range of capabilities throughconnectionς, όπως έως οκτώ υποδοχές για κάρτες PCIe 3, έως οκτώ θύρες SATA και δύο θύρες 10-Gigabit Ethernet. In addition, exclusive encryption machines will be available, etcpressureof data, while the power consumption of such a SoC is expected to reach 25W.
This move of AMD comes to "stir the waters" as it is the first substantial effort of the company to disengage from the traditional strategy of producing only x86 processors. Indeed, the company estimates that up to 2019, 25% of the server processor market will be made up of ARM processors and of course it wants to be a protagonist in that particular market segment.
However, it should not be taken as certain that the market in question will shape up in this way. Typical is the case of Calxeda, a company considered a pioneer in low-consumption ARM servers, which announced the suspension of its activities despite the investment of tens of millions and the cooperation with Hewlett Packard.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
