This makes no sense unless AMD already has a bulldozer-sized die packed full of bobcat cores...
i am actually impressed amd managed to buy a company that was already in bed with intel. because usually, once that happens it is near impossible for amd to make any headway with that company
JFAMD denied AMD had any such plans less than a year ago. Unless he was lying, there is no way they could pull together such a project between then and now.
Something else about the deal must be the deal-maker.
Remember what happened to ATI's chipset deals for Intel platforms when AMD bought ATI?
Short of Rory saying it himself, and Otellini confirming, I cannot believe that AMD will actually be selling/shipping a single SeaMicro server containing a single Intel CPU.
Does Larry Ellison support Itanium after having bought SUN? Does Intel support Oracle with detailed Itanium roadmaps and product schedules?
No. AMD bought SeaMicro for (1) patents, and (2) know-how.
#2 comes down to the people, those 40 individuals, that can make stuff happen.
#1 they could have acquired access to with a simple licensing revenue model, so I consider #1 as simply being part of the reason the price is so high but in and of itself is not the reason for AMD to buy SeaMicro.
So it all comes down to #2. They need people who have the express skills and working capabilities that SeaMicro has inhouse at this time.
AMD did this before. NexGen and the K6 anyone?
JFAMD denied AMD had any such plans less than a year ago. Unless he was lying, there is no way they could pull together such a project between then and now.
Something else about the deal must be the deal-maker.
Am I to read you think that is a good thing? Since the K6 was largely before my time (and likely others here...)
i am actually impressed amd managed to buy a company that was already in bed with intel. because usually, once that happens it is near impossible for amd to make any headway with that company
This makes no sense unless AMD already has a bulldozer-sized die packed full of bobcat cores...
That's not cool, man.
K6 seems like it happened ... a couple years ago or so ...
You just made me feel old. =\
SeaMicro doesn't even buy chips directly from Intel, they buy them through a distributor, they never had any partnership with Intel, all they did was use Intel (Atom/Xeon) chips, and that will change over time now that AMD owns them.
Am I to read you think that is a good thing? Since the K6 was largely before my time (and likely others here...)
The AMD K6 is based on the Nx686 microprocessor that NexGen was designing when it was acquired by AMD. Despite the name implying a design evolving from the K5, it is in fact a totally different design that was created by the NexGen team, including chief processor architect Greg Favor,[1][2] and adapted after the AMD purchase. The K6 processor included a feedback dynamic instruction reordering mechanism, MMX instructions, and a floating-point unit (FPU). It was also made pin-compatible with Intel's Pentium, enabling it to be used in the widely available "Socket 7"-based motherboards.
AMD purchased NexGen when AMD's K5 chip failed to meet performance and sales expectations.
The AMD K6 is based on the Nx686 microprocessor that NexGen was designing when it was acquired by AMD. Despite the name implying a design evolving from the K5, it is in fact a totally different design that was created by the NexGen team, including chief processor architect Greg Favor,[1][2] and adapted after the AMD purchase. The K6 processor included a feedback dynamic instruction reordering mechanism, MMX instructions, and a floating-point unit (FPU). It was also made pin-compatible with Intel's Pentium, enabling it to be used in the widely available "Socket 7"-based motherboards.
Certainly not my intention!
Sorry you had to use one of your ~5 posts per year on that!
(that's a crazy low post count! )
Well, I do not know about servers, but Intel has been making motherboards for long time.
There's good AMD branded RAM, though.
Today, a couple hundred MHz bump and real-world performance improvement is hardly noticeable in some instances.
i am actually impressed amd managed to buy a company that was already in bed with intel. because usually, once that happens it is near impossible for amd to make any headway with that company
If only they didnt sold their mobile gpu tech to qualcomm they could have ridden a golden train wagon along with seamicro.
Last I read qualcomm still hadn't used that gpu tech they bought from AMD and were using something else (at least in their ARM chips), so it must not have been very good.
Last I read qualcomm still hadn't used that gpu tech they bought from AMD and were using something else (at least in their ARM chips), so it must not have been very good.
Adreno, the company's proprietary GPU technology, integrated into Snapdragon chipsets (and certain other Qualcomm chipsets) is Qualcomm's own design, using assets the company acquired from AMD.
D:With the sale of these handheld technology assets and resources to Qualcomm, we are better able to focus on our core business and leverage our unique position as a leader in both x86 computing and high-end graphics, said Robert J. Rivet, chief operations and administrative officer, chief financial officer of AMD.