I understand that some people here doesn't like facts. I can live with that.
What I find difficult to accept is when this same people pretends that the facts don't exist. I have given the AMD official roadmap together with AMD reasons why they are replacing jaguar servers with ARM servers. An official roadmap is not a "promo slide" nor "personal speculation". If you don't know how to read a roadmap or are confused about the meaning of blue/orange colours, that is not my problem.
The whole industry is applauding AMD plans and new strategy/products, even Anandtech!!! LOL This is what Anandtech said about AMD plans of replacing jaguar servers by arm servers:
http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/AMDs-plans-keep-their-ARMs-server-room
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2013/2013061901_AMD_reveals_server_roadmap.html
http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/architecture/312794-amd-pivots-to-arm-on-servers
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7079/amd-evolving-fast-to-survive-in-the-server-market-jungle-/5
I find amazing how many AMD hate has floured in this thread recently.
What I find difficult to accept is when this same people pretends that the facts don't exist. I have given the AMD official roadmap together with AMD reasons why they are replacing jaguar servers with ARM servers. An official roadmap is not a "promo slide" nor "personal speculation". If you don't know how to read a roadmap or are confused about the meaning of blue/orange colours, that is not my problem.
Kyoto is known as the Opteron X-series and is available now, based on Jaguar and offering GPU compute enhancements as well as increased CPU performance. The Seattle family will replace these CPUs in the near future and will represent a new era for AMD as these chips will be clusters of ARM Cortex-A57 on AMD's advanced Freedom Fabric.
This week, AMD made public their server roadmap for 2013 and 2014, that revealed some details of future microprocessors and APUs for server and microserver markets.
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A few weeks ago, AMD introduced X-Series Opteron CPUs, based on recently launched "Jaguar" microarchitecture. The roadmap states that these processors will be on the market until the second half of 2014, at which time AMD is going to replace them with "Seattle" systems-on-a-chip, built on ARM Cortex-57 IP core.
AMD has been hinting at major changes to its server strategy for a while now, but with its announcements of new server chips yesterday it has firmly pivoted away from a focus on the traditional two-processor and four-processor servers that drive most enterprise servers and toward lower-power, single-processor servers typically used in Web servers and cloud applications. More interestingly, it plans to take this even further next year, replacing the x86 cores in its extreme low-power server chips with new ARM-based cores. This represents an enormous shift in direction.
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In the second half of 2014, AMD will be replacing the X-series with a new ARM-based chip known as "Seattle." This will be a System-on-Chip that is purely a CPU (in other words, it won't have integrated graphics) based on ARM Cortex-A57 cores. Initially it will be offered as an eight-core server chip, but with a 16-core version due to follow. The ARM cores are expected to run at 2GHz or a bit faster and AMD says they should be in the same general performance ranges as the "Jaguar" cores.
The whole industry is applauding AMD plans and new strategy/products, even Anandtech!!! LOL This is what Anandtech said about AMD plans of replacing jaguar servers by arm servers:
The chip that has the potential to give Intel some real headaches is “Seattle”. It is a pretty revolutionary design for being an AMD CPU.
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It looks like the Intel Avoton will have a very potent challenger in Q1 2014.
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However, the combined AMD, ARM and Seamicro technology inside AMD’s new Seattle CPU look extremely promising: these are probably the best specs of a micro server CPU we have seen so far. And since all the right components are now in place, it looks like the micro server is ready for prime time. There is little doubt that Seamicro servers will continue to thrive in their niche market while HP's Moonshot and Dell's Viking will make the market much more popular. So there is good chance that AMD will make a big comeback in 2014 in the server market.
http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/AMDs-plans-keep-their-ARMs-server-room
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2013/2013061901_AMD_reveals_server_roadmap.html
http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/architecture/312794-amd-pivots-to-arm-on-servers
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7079/amd-evolving-fast-to-survive-in-the-server-market-jungle-/5
I find amazing how many AMD hate has floured in this thread recently.