> http://www.anandtech.com/show/5503/understanding-amds-roadmap-new- > direction/2 > > AMD's new roadmap basically says they stop high performance CPU > development.
well, they won't pursue P4-netburst-ish damn-the-torpedoes style "high" _desktop_ performance. their server roadmap is pretty solid, though they've dropped the 10/20c chips. (which might not have made sense in terms of power envelope. or, for that matter, the fact that even cache-friendly code probably wants more than 2 memory channels for 10 cores...) I think AMD is absolutely right: the market is for mobile devices, for power-efficient servers, and for media-intensive desktops. > GPU line will continue > also inside cpu's integrated. Total monopoly for intel for > applications needing CPU's as it seems. you seem to have missed AMD's main point, which HSA: the concept of pushing x86 and GPU together to enable something higher-performing. it's not a crazy idea, though pretty ambitious. > That might that companies that need some more CPU crunching no longer > can build cheap 4 socket 4s is still on the roadmap; I don't see why you'd expect it to disappear. it costs them very little to support, and does serve a modest market. > So this means that clustering is only cheap choice then. clustering has always been the cheap solution. hence this list! _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
