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 <[email protected]> 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 Or has that idea been superseded by their acquisition of SeaMicro's 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 > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
