AMD has built hardware at Samsung, could tap foundry for future products
… Having the option to build at Samsung could be important to AMD's long-term plans and overall success for a number of reasons. …
on the planet for mainstream laptops, desktops, and servers for most of the past two decades. Its products represent the default option, the safe choice. Over time, Intel CPUs have become more-or-less synonymous with "the best and fastest CPUs." But Intel hasn't had much luck delivering significant performance gains on a core-for-core basis since Sandy Bridge launched in 2011. Improvements have come incrementally and often relied on SIMD instruction set optimization or specific test cases. So long as Intel faced no meaningful market competition, there was no real argument against the idea that
Intel Is at a Crossroads… Having the option to build at Samsung could be important to AMD's long-term plans and overall success for a number of reasons. …
… Internal design -- how components are laid out, integrated, and cooled -- is vital to building a reliable machine. Until quite recently, this aspect of design only attracted consumer interest if something went wrong. …
… There's a lot we don't know yet, but it's interesting to see the rumor mill was right on this one.
… There are some really interesting takeaways in this chart. …
… Does Intel Still Build the Best CPUs? …
… The purple bits are the most interesting, though none of them have timelines attached. …
… Modern x86 CPUs from AMD and Intel take advantage of SMT to improve performance by an average of 20-30 percent at a fraction of the cost or power that would be required to build an entire second core. …
… It's going to be harder for AMD to build support for HSA in the x86 world, given that it commands only a minority of that market. …
… Anyone interested in running Matlab on an AMD CPU should read this article. The Matlab data below is now inaccurate. Matlab's results are rather interesting. …