Posted on 03/03/2014 11:48:29 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
AMD has released its long-awaited Kaveri processor, the first accelerated processing unit (APU) to incorporate both on-die CPU and GPU cores in a heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) with a shared memory architecture.
"We're going to need to create a new term," AMD product CTO Joe Macri said at a Kaveri briefing, "because HSA has really changed what can be done on the graphics part of the die."
That new term, Macri explained, is compute cores. "The compute cores can either be CPU cores or graphics cores," he said. "We based them on the historical definition of what a CPU is," meaning that in an HSA system, each compute core CPU or GPU is programmable, capable of running at least one process in its own context in its own virtual memory space, and do so independently from all the other cores on the 2.41-billion transistor, 245mm2 die.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Will it run DOS?
Probably... in a Virtual Machine.
The Kaveri will absolutely smoke anythig Intel has on its IGP.
It’s WAY short on general purpose CPU power. They’re ignoring traditional computation to achieve interesting benchmark numbers in multimedia apps.
It’s very good at things most people don’t care about. And even gamers may not like its hit-and-miss performance depending on the title.
The only place it really shines is as a hybrid HD video/light gameplay crossover. It’s fully capable of that.
And if you have tried to install a discreet video card into one of AMD’s A-series systems, you know how screwed up they are.
6-core 16nm FinFET ARM Cortex-A57 chips spotted in the wild
So I guess TSMC is close to Intel and well ahead of Global Foundaries process node.
It's not "particle beam", but, "particle bursts".
The rest of your explanation is 100% correct. ]
Thanks, you saved me, i would have had to explain to the admiral why this:
Happened at my court martial...
Don’t mention it.
We want our science and technology to be sound, as opposed to that of the “global warming” shysters. ;)
/They have a leg up on Intel in that little niche.
They also spit out the desktop chips,,....but not so potent in that arena.
May wipe out the market for Graphic cards selling for less than ^100 dollars.
Nvidia got is Maxwell cards out quickly for the just over 100 dollars...
Sounds like it could be a great choice for small home theater PCs with silent/passive cooling and the next generation of Roku-type streaming video boxes. If the power requirements and heat generation aren't unmanagable, of course.
[ We want our science and technology to be sound, as opposed to that of the global warming shysters. ;) ]
They thinkt he carbon Balance on a M-Class planet is finicky.... HAH, you can have HUGE variations on Minshara Class planets with little effect...
NOW Anti-Matter... that stuff is TRICKY!!!
That seems to be where they were aiming....
But the A10-7850K needs a good cooler.
[ It gets less involved if you just call it “TRICKY Matter”, because, there’s a trick to finding the stuff. ]
You don;t find it, you make it, you just take regular run of the mill Deuterium and then simply rotate it along the 4th dimensional axis to make it into anti-matter....
And by simply I mean that is the “Trick”...
This probably means that three years from now I won’t have to buy a graphics card for my new desktop builds and I’ll still be able to afford the computer.
Does anybody know of an affordable graphics card that will run three monitors simultaneously or do I have to buy two cards?
Thanks Ernest.
6-core 16nm FinFET ARM Cortex-A57 chips spotted in the wild
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/03/03/6-core-16nm-finfet-arm-cortex-a57-chips-spotted-wild/
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