[HH] AMD to make 64-bit ARM CPUs

[Bill Bogstad]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was a bit unclear from the press release. One line implied the
> product might be some sort of a combination of x86 and 64-bit ARM. I
> would have expected them to make a clean break from x86.

At one point AMD was talking up the idea of using the Hypertransport
bus for co-processors.    Any possibility they might try to do this
with ARM cpus?   A mixed x86-64/ARM64 server might be interesting.

Or has that idea been superseded by their acquisition of SeaMicro's
"freedom fabric"?

Bill Bogstad