This was first released in AMD's Bulldozer architecture in 2011. I believe, and this is speculation on my part, that the long term goal AMD is working toward are heterogeneous CPUs. This would be a CPU where you have a pile of high performance integer cores working similar to cores on CPUs today. This would then be combines with a small number of high-performance floating point cores for single-threaded floating point performance, and also a array of GPU like cores for massive parallel flops. Essentially integrating the CPU and GPU into a unified heterogeneous system architecture. You don't need lots of floating point CPU cores if you have convenient access to GPU like floating point computation that is an order of magnitude faster.
On Friday, December 5, 2014 6:59:59 AM UTC+2, Viral Shah wrote: > > That is very interesting. Any idea why they are doing this? > > -viral > >
