On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Shankar Viswanathan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Kurt Keville <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > > I can see how the press release language could be interpreted as > meaning that there will be both AMD64 and ARM64 CPU cores in the same > chip, but that is not the case. Will heterogeneous core designs like > that happen in the future? Maybe ... depending on customer demand for > such a product and the software stack to support it.
I wasn't thinking about a single chip heterogeneous CPU myself. Rather, I was thinking about whether ARM CPUs will be built to fit into Socket F, G34, or C32 motherboards. Admittedly multi-core CPUs have significantly reduced the need for multi-socket systems, but I could imagine a multi-socket system with both X86 and ARM CPUs in different sockets. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
