Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Alex M (adm.delete@this.hotmail.com), January 6, 2012 4:23 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
George Baker (george_baker@yahoo.com) on 1/4/12 wrote:
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>AMD has intellectual property and expertise for cache-coherent
>HyperTransport, PCI Express, caches and high-speed DRAM interfaces.
>All of these could be applied to an ARM server chip. In an ideal world,
>AMD and Nvidia would work together on such a chip and would be second
>sources for each other on the finished product. Perhaps they could get
>some funding from Google and/or Facebook for developing this chip.
As long as we're talking about a more ideal world, I think server chips from AMD and Nvidia should be pin-compatible with Sandy Bridge-EP so they could all use the same motherboards.
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>AMD has intellectual property and expertise for cache-coherent
>HyperTransport, PCI Express, caches and high-speed DRAM interfaces.
>All of these could be applied to an ARM server chip. In an ideal world,
>AMD and Nvidia would work together on such a chip and would be second
>sources for each other on the finished product. Perhaps they could get
>some funding from Google and/or Facebook for developing this chip.
As long as we're talking about a more ideal world, I think server chips from AMD and Nvidia should be pin-compatible with Sandy Bridge-EP so they could all use the same motherboards.
