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"DIFFUSED IN USA"
What exactly does that mean? Given the next line is "MADE IN CHINA", it would seem like "DIFFUSED" should be "DESIGNED" - or does that word have a new meaning?
The real question for me with all these AMD releases, what's Intel gonna release? It's surprising to me that Apple didn't announce an AMD based Mac Pro-- the chip Intel gave them must really be something. Too bad though because there could be a lot more of them (eventual Mac Pros) out there I'm guessing if they were using these Rome chips.
It's probably not just the chip, Intel provides financial incentives for manufacturers who build products around their chips.
Yes, but I think the bigger picture, Apple needed Intel's iPhone modem for another year. May not be worth to damage the relationship, not to mention the design were likely finalise some time ago.
I would not be surprised if the Sale of Modem Business to Apple will include agreement to keep Intel CPU on Mac. ( For the time being )
And I am sure AMD should be aiming EPYC at the Datacenter usage of Apple, which is huge in itself, rather then the market of Mac Pro. Although Apple using AMD on Mac would be a pretty big statement to the rest of the market.
I'm curious if anyone knows about that image of the AMD cpu - it says on it: "DIFFUSED IN USA" What exactly does that mean? Given the next line is "MADE IN CHINA", it would seem like "DIFFUSED" should be "DESIGNED" - or does that word have a new meaning?
I'm curious if anyone knows about that image of the AMD cpu - it says on it: "DIFFUSED IN USA" What exactly does that mean? Given the next line is "MADE IN CHINA", it would seem like "DIFFUSED" should be "DESIGNED" - or does that word have a new meaning?
Made is where it's attached to the substrate, packaged etc.
The real question for me with all these AMD releases, what's Intel gonna release? It's surprising to me that Apple didn't announce an AMD based Mac Pro-- the chip Intel gave them must really be something. Too bad though because there could be a lot more of them (eventual Mac Pros) out there I'm guessing if they were using these Rome chips.
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I believe these chips have Uniform Memory Access via a shared memory interface on the I/O die. Am I mistaken? Edit, just confirmed: >Thanks to this improved design, each chiplet can access the memory with equal latency. The multi-core beasts can support to 4TB of DDR4 memory per socket. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-64-core-128-thread-7nm...
They exhibit NUMA because if chiplet0 wants a line of memory that is held by chiplet4, it has to go get it from chiplet4. So the degree of NUMA is improved from the previous generation, but it is still not UMA.
What's stopping them from creating 1000 core cpus?
Economically, there aren't so many people looking for 1000 cores that it makes sense to put in the NRE to assemble a giant package to put all of that in versus just selling a system that can have multiple sockets. Cooling limits also make spreading out work across multiple sockets a better choice.
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Given the JavaScript performance of the shipping units intended for mobile use, which is eclipsing the best of Intel's offerings, it might be possible that the A14 or A15 iteration actually surpasses Intel's chips at x86-64 code as well when run through a Rosetta-like compatibility layer. What if the high-end chip was ARM? It's not just about raw speed, it's about how much performance you can squeeze out of a particu…
What would be awesome if instead of a Rosetta-like (or qemu-user-like) compatibility layer, the chip supported multiple ISAs natively. The only company that has the rights to do both ARMv8 and amd64 is.. AMD :)
What's stopping them from creating 1000 core cpus?