Article: AMD's Jaguar Microarchitecture
By: WaltC (johnandsusanne333.delete@this.outlook.com), April 2, 2014 1:52 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on April 1, 2014 1:19 am wrote:
> Hot off the presses:
>
> Jaguar is AMD’s first 28nm processor, a compact 3.1mm2 design that targets 2-25W devices. It is
> a derivative of the earlier 40nm Bobcat, a fully out-of-order two issue design, with significant
> improvements in instruction set architecture and implementation. Some of the highlights include
> support for AVX, wider 128-bit datapaths, and a higher performance L2 cache. Jaguar is already >shipping
A decent article, with only a minor nitpick...
Found this a somewhat interesting statement:
...but when it comes to Jaguar, the company was clearly constrained by a lack of budget and engineering resources.
Clearly, and in comparison to whom...Intel? (Obviously.) Not only is that to be expected, but even so Intel has nothing comparable in this market sector, regardless of the disparity in budgets and resources. That is true (and has been for years) for several AMD gpu technologies, as well. AMD didn't win these contracts by accident--it simply, as usual, could field the best technologies for the manufacturing budgets its customers sought to realize. I have to admit being surprised that AMD swept the console field--getting them both is a certain undeniable endorsement, regardless of the "constraints" the company is theoretically under, I should think...;)
> Hot off the presses:
>
> Jaguar is AMD’s first 28nm processor, a compact 3.1mm2 design that targets 2-25W devices. It is
> a derivative of the earlier 40nm Bobcat, a fully out-of-order two issue design, with significant
> improvements in instruction set architecture and implementation. Some of the highlights include
> support for AVX, wider 128-bit datapaths, and a higher performance L2 cache. Jaguar is already >shipping
A decent article, with only a minor nitpick...
Found this a somewhat interesting statement:
...but when it comes to Jaguar, the company was clearly constrained by a lack of budget and engineering resources.
Clearly, and in comparison to whom...Intel? (Obviously.) Not only is that to be expected, but even so Intel has nothing comparable in this market sector, regardless of the disparity in budgets and resources. That is true (and has been for years) for several AMD gpu technologies, as well. AMD didn't win these contracts by accident--it simply, as usual, could field the best technologies for the manufacturing budgets its customers sought to realize. I have to admit being surprised that AMD swept the console field--getting them both is a certain undeniable endorsement, regardless of the "constraints" the company is theoretically under, I should think...;)
