AMD has used to be x64-based company. But now they’ve also got ARM technology in some of their new products, so things are about to get interesting, how this will turn out.,. Joel Hruska reports in ExtremeTech on the Opteron-A1100:
AMD’s first ARM-based processor, the Opteron A1100, is finally here
Today AMD is formally launching its first ARM processor core, the Opteron A1100. AMD first announced its plans to enter the ARM market in 2013, with the chip expected to ship by mid-2014. The company apparently began early sampling around that time frame, but is only now launching the processor. The new Opteron A1100 is pretty much what AMD promised in its early previews of the device. It packs eight Cortex-A57 CPU cores, with each pair of cores sharing a 1MB L2 (512K effectively allocated to each chip). An 8MB L3 cache backs the entire CPU cluster, and the CPU supports both DDR3 and DDR4. ECC support is also provided.
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