AMD Discusses Its Roadmap From 2015 All The Way To 2020 In Japan

[MetroP]

 

The discussion revolved around AMD’s graphics IP and all the products that involve it. Including discrete Radeon graphics cards and Radeon powered Accelerated Processing Units or APUs for short. As well as AMD’s upcoming ARM ( K12 ) and it’s sister x86 CPU core ( Zen ) . In addition to AMD’s ambidextrous strategy to develop and introduce both x86 and ARM powered SOCs to the market in a pin for pin compatible platform code named SkyBridge.

 

 

By 2017 AMD plans to introduce what it described as a High Performance Computing APU or HPC for short. This APU will carry a sizable TDP between 200 and 300 watts. This sort of APU, AMD expects, will excel in HPC applications. Similarly powerful APUs were not attempted up to this point because they were simply not viable due to the amount of memory bandwidth required to keep such a powerful APU fed.

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[Geekazoid]

Interesting. I hope this isn't a repost.

[Swndlr]

HPC APU HYPE HYPE HYPE IM SOLD AMD PLS

so help me god if intel beat them to something better i will cri

[NeverNotExhausted]

Yeah, maybe an APU will be a viable gaming option on the cheap then.

 

I just want AMD to go back to making kickass CPU's, is that too much to ask???

[Syntaxvgm]

If I see bulldozer anywhere in this announcement I swear to god I will sodomize someone with a sanding wheel on a power drill

Figuratively 

 

 

Time for a new architecture AMD I aint got all life!

[Geekazoid]

If I see bulldozer anywhere in this announcement I swear to god I will sodomize someone with a sanding wheel on a power drill

Figuratively 

That's wude! haha

[Geekazoid]

I just want AMD to go back to making kickass CPU's, is that too much to ask???

Yes, way too much to ask.

[FloRolf]

And will be like: fuck it, let's throw a 390x and an FX9590 on one chip and give them a shared 32gb of ddr5 HBM memory.

[cesrai]

And will be like: fuck it, let's throw a 390x and an FX9590 on one chip and give them a shared 32gb of ddr5 HBM memory.

Hey I'm not complaining, 

[Blebekblebek]

I wonder who bought their APU solution? (apart from AM1)

seriously I havent met anyone or at least heard anyone that they have APU in their build

most office I knew using DELL or Lenovo built pc with i3/i5 in it.

[qwertywarrior]

i would love a high powered APU with HMC  on a pico motherboard

[kuddlesworth9419]

Does anyone actually want APU's that suck at CPU tasks. If AMD could make a CPU that was actually a good CPU that would be a different story. 

[TERAFLOP]

People asking for a new CPU architecture from AMD. Have you somehow missed this ?
 

The new information that has been revealed this time around is that the K12 and x86 sister core [ referring to the new Zen core ] will support “many threads”. It was speculated and rumored before that AMD’s upcoming x86 and ARM CPU cores will support simultaneous multi-threading instead of clustered multi-threading which is what AMD’s current Bulldozer family (Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator) of processors support.

 

So it appears that AMD’s upcoming K12 ARM core will be quite large for it support “many threads” instead of just supporting one additional thread as is the case with Intel’s high performance CPUs.

AMD's working on two entirely new beast mode cores.

[Speedbird]

I wonder who bought their APU solution? (apart from AM1)

seriously I havent met anyone or at least heard anyone that they have APU in their build

most office I knew using DELL or Lenovo built pc with i3/i5 in it.

I run an A10-7850K...

[deviant88]

stupid APU's everywhere so sad... everyone is SoC/APU nowdays its just sad,at least i hope all devs will use DX12 and future HSA.

[patrickjp93]

HPC APU HYPE HYPE HYPE IM SOLD AMD PLS

so help me god if intel beat them to something better i will cri

Well it looks like their many-thread strategy will be up against Knight's Landing, and their HPC APUs will be going toe to toe with the E5/E7 Xeons which will have iGPU this time around. And K12 will additionally have a fight against the Xeon D/Avoton chips in the micro server arena

[CommandMan7]

Maybe, just maybe, we can get a 370 on an APU.

[MrRavens]

If I have to see another graphic/graph/spreadsheet or rumor about AMD I swear man. I don't want to hype up too much h in case they don't live up to the hype. But really, can we get something from you already AMD!? D;

Really want them to do well, to keep the rest of the market on their toes.

[Doobeedoo]

I really do hope they do something big with 'Zen' and then current GPU. Also HSA and new DirectX improvements. It will be great to see.

[Swndlr]

Well it looks like their many-thread strategy will be up against Knight's Landing, and their HPC APUs will be going toe to toe with the E5/E7 Xeons which will have iGPU this time around. And K12 will additionally have a fight against the Xeon D/Avoton chips in the micro server arena

this made me moist

[Fulgrim]

If I see bulldozer anywhere in this announcement I swear to god I will sodomize someone with a sanding wheel on a power drill

Figuratively 

 

 

Time for a new architecture AMD I aint got all life!

You should be flayed alive for that sig you've got. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Dabombinable]

Hmmm, I'm getting the message asking me to not use adblocking or a noscript when viewing the article, and I'm only on the stock standard chrome - no plugins and settings changes.

[Sharkyx1]

Yeah, maybe an APU will be a viable gaming option on the cheap then.

 

I just want AMD to go back to making kickass CPU's, is that too much to ask???

I wouldn't assume a large die like that would be cheap, its primary target it the server space based on this and it sounds like something along the lines of the PS4 chip with Zen CPUs instead of Jaguars 

[Deletive]

I wouldn't assume a large die like that would be cheap, its primary target it the server space based on this and it sounds like something along the lines of the PS4 chip with Zen CPUs instead of Jaguars

The cost of the platform definitely isn't gooding to be cheap. But I wouldn't say the processor stupid expensive. But really depends on if they use tsmc, global foundries or even Samsung.

[Briggsy]

I'm liking that APU's will finally become competitive enough with discrete graphics because of stacked HBM, while being much more efficient in power draw and resource management than having separate cpu and gpu. memory bandwidth has always been a strong argument against APU's being able to catch up with discrete graphic cards, and its nice to see AMD finally bringing the unified cpu/gpu architecture that much closer to high end gaming, and circumvent the need for a better pci-e bus revision (one can hope). The other aspect of this is gaming consoles, which would heavily benefit from HBM memory. I even suspect that the Nintendo NX will be using HBM with a modified AMD APU (we already know AMD is working with an undisclosed company on a future gaming console). 

 

Interesting times indeed.