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How the SoC Is Displacing the CPU

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Re: How the SoC Is Displacing the CPU

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revelation wrote: post #13
digi_owl wrote: post #4

One should also note that the x86 platform has taken on some SoC like structures over the years, with AMD as a driving force. For example they lumped the memory controller onto the CPU die with the Athlon 64, and then a GPU on their A series.

Also, as the author missed, Haswell now integrates power regulation on the CPU.

Which evidently was a mistake, because it's been dropped with Skylake.

Re: How the SoC Is Displacing the CPU

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mschuster91 wrote: post #6
digi_owl wrote: post #4

One should also note that the x86 platform has taken on some SoC like structures over the years, with AMD as a driving force. For example they lumped the memory controller onto the CPU die with the Athlon 64, and then a GPU on their A series.

Yeah, and the integrated GPUs, at least the entry level ones, do suck. My Acer netbook is barely able to play 360p videos, 720p if you're lucky and 1080p - no hope. My cheap smartphone can play 1080p without a single dropped frame.

On the other hand, my higher end, but certainly not highest Intel Ivy Bridge Xeon E3-1225 V2 (3.2/3.6GHz turbo) plays 1080p without a glitch using Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu Trusty. I'm sure I wouldn't want to play an intense 3D game with it, but for 2D purposes it's great and relatively cheap with all the integration in the chip, the Supermicro X9SAE-O it's on has a real paucity of additional chips, and one of those is for a not strictly needed 2nd gigabit Ethernet port (for a workstation board like it, most useful for running older systems software instead of depending on the southbridge's integrated controller).
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