AMD Launches Carrizo

Post by threeseed » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 7:23 AM UTC

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VP9 was always going to be dead in the water. There are just too many influential companies part of the MPEG-LA to compete with. With Netflix, Amazon and Apple moving to HVEC and the PS/XBox refresh rumored to have HVEC support there is simply too much content: legal and illegal to bother with adding VP9 support. Plus is anyone expecting a lot of YouTube 4K content ?

>VP9 was always going to be dead in the water. What? Youtube has >70% of the online video market, and primarily uses VP9 [0]. To be fair, VP9 isnt commonly used outside of google, but to discount the market leader in online video as "dead" is disingenuous at best. [0] http://www.statista.com/statistics/266201/us-market-share-of...

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 7:51 AM UTC

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>VP9 was always going to be dead in the water. What? Youtube has >70% of the online video market, and primarily uses VP9 [0]. To be fair, VP9 isnt commonly used outside of google, but to discount the market leader in online video as "dead" is disingenuous at best. [0] http://www.statista.com/statistics/266201/us-market-share-of...

YouTube doesn't primarly use VP9. It uses H.264 on iOS, Safari, IE, Flash, Consoles, TVs and a lot of Android devices. Those combined are a sizeable amount of traffic. And I would argue that the driver of higher end content e.g. 1080p, 4K is not going to come from YouTube but from Netflix, Amazon, Apple and illegal content which a lot of people watch on consoles. Nothing has fundamentally changed to see this being an…

Post by venomsnake » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:15 AM UTC

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> AMD Secure Processor Can anyone explain how this works and why should a user want it? It seems like a DRM on your device.

You could use it for DRM, yes, but that's not the sole use. The point is to put cryptographic keys and secret information somewhere out of direct reach of the CPU, to keep it more secure. An an example: Apple's iPhone stores all fingerprint data exclusively in its secure module.

Post by sireat » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 12:53 PM UTC

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It looks like AMD is skipping 20/22: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture) http://www.pcgamer.com/amds-next-gen-zen-cpu-due-in-2016/ Seems like the next chip after Carrizo is targeted at 14nm fin-something. Which, if it pans out, would put Intel & AMD on the same node for the first time in a while. Supposedly Intel's first 10nm part isn't due until 2017: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_%28microarc…

The issue with TSMC/GF "16/14 nm" is that not all important features have been brought down to that level, so the actual shrink is less pronounced than usual. Furthermore, Intel's FinFET's are likely to be more mature than the competition, so I'd be wary of calling the two nodes equivalent. Close, certainly closer than the past, but Intel might retain its lead a bit longer.

Post by pmalynin » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 7:22 PM UTC

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And so does CUDA, which usually out-performs OpenCL, plus the tooling for CUDA is just so much better with the Visual Studio integration.

Yes, but CUDA is Nvidia only - another trick in their anti-competitive bag. I always get disappointed when I see something that CUDA specific. "Hey that's interesting machine learning package! Oh wait, that's Nvidia specific." With OpenCL, you can develop on laptop, test on workstation and deploy on actual servers. With CUDA, you're trapped.