AMD has repeatedly declared its intention to enter the market of ARM-processors, and information on the development of such solutions regularly appears on our site. Most manufacturers are licensed from ARM . Cortex-A57, is just such a processor that manufacturers' systems on a chip "integrate into their solutions without any changes. But some manufacturers have their own chips license only instruction set and CPU development Tutor. Such examples include Apple, which develops its own ARM-based processors, starting with A6; Architecture Qualcomm Krait, as well as draft Denver from NVIDIA. Obviously, a lot of money to invest in the development of independent processors only makes sense in order to achieve those or other exceptional features, which do not provide ready-core ARM Cortex. AMD also decided to go their own, the hard way, and develop their own processors for command system ARMv8-A, which supports 64-bit.
According to Japanese journalists , AMD very seriously approached the issue. Their ARM processor, code-named K12, focused on the segment of high-performance solutions. It is assumed that K12 is 4-wide processor. This characteristic indicating the number of concurrently decoded instructions. Thus, each core of a future AMD processor can simultaneously decode 4 teams that indirectly indicates a rather high target level of performance. Additionally, AMD plans to use the multi-threading technology (SMT), similar to Intel Hyper-Threading in its K12. This will enable more efficient load and give a good performance gains in a number of algorithms.
All this information, as well as some of the slides AMD, indirectly point to a certain kinship K12 and upcoming architecture Zen. Thisis not surprising, given the limited AMD resources , as well as the overall direction and target segments of these decisions. Related Products :
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