AMD ARMed at Robert Pogson

Years ago I advocated AMD CPUs as a less-expensive alternative to Intel monopolistic pricing. When they completely ignored the netbook I began to ignore them. Perhaps they noticed because now they have an ARMed CPU on the horizion:

“Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is to release its first ARM-based chip in 2014.
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AMD added that it was also considering making ARM-based chips for consumer-targeted computers, but no decision had been made as yet.”

via AMD in chip tie-up with UK's ARM.

This may be too little and too late but it shows that even thick-headed people can see the light. People want less power-consumption and they want cheaper/smaller computers everywhere, not just in smartphones.

I still am incredulous that they think it will take until 2014 to do what a dozen other companies have done years ago, produce an ARMed CPU. ARM has done most of the work. They mostly have to do packaging in which task they have a lot of expertise. Perhaps it will take that long to get servers running ARM in volume but the small cheap computer is here now. I wonder if Intel will get the message.

AMD, WAKE UP!

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1 Agent_Smith Oct 30th, 2012 at 8:10 am

Well, AMD arrived late to the race. But they have expertise (ATI video cards and Fusion SoC x86).
So, they are able to pull this off.
I just hope they hurry up, or else, their efforts will be in vain.
2 harry Oct 30th, 2012 at 11:00 am

I use AMD 64bits and have always been happy with AMD.
Their failure to adapt to new paradigms was puzzling when they missed the netbook,etc> boat but 2014 is their ETA for the ARMed CPU?

Puzzling is when you miss the boat once, stunning incompetence is when you do it twice in a row.
3 oiaohm Oct 30th, 2012 at 4:20 pm

Really I would love if AMD would do a Huge Big Little chip. A true full split personalities chip.

Huge-Big-Little chip refering to a chip that is X86 cores + Arm big cores + Arm Little cores in one dia.
http://www.zdnet.com/why-your-next-arm-chip-might-have-multiple-personalities-7000006575/

Linux has moved past the Idea of all cpus in a computer being the same.

Intel has produced arm chips for years. Problem here is Intel does not want the fall of the x86 since this would open up the field.