[HH] AMD to make 64-bit ARM CPUs

[Kurt Keville]

The verbage from the press release was a bit misleading. I think this is a new non-x86 design. Opteron is a trade name, doesn't imply an architecture, AFAIK.

On Nov 1, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:

> 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 Or has that idea been superseded by their acquisition of SeaMicro's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
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