ARM Announces Cortex-A50 64-Bit Processors
Scheduled for arrival in actual commercial SoC designs in 2014, ARM formally announced the first two processors based on it 64-bit ARMv8 architecture.
The Cortex-A50 series will initially debut as A53 and A57 with the latter moving closer to Intel territory and a claimed performance that is similar to a "legacy PC".
Leading up until 2014, Intel will not be standing still either; but if ARM can deliver on its promise that especially the flagship model A57 can triple the performance of the Cortex-A15 processor, the company is setting a lofty goal that expands the horizon what future smartphone and tablet will be able to do.
The big news is the arrival of 64-bit support in ARM's designs which is necessary to provide it with an opportunity to break into new markets of desktop computing as well as server computing. While the company is not aiming to challenge Intel's high-performing x86 Xeon processors, ARM vendors believe they have an opportunity to use lower power processors to offer an efficient alternative for all those tasks where a Xeon processor's processing capability is not granular enough and effectively wasted.
In ultradense microservers, which aim for application areas such as networking, storage and bulk processing tasks in cloud environments, ARM vendors believe they can make a compelling business case. Intel will be standing against ARM vendors with its Atom S processor series.
Initial licensees of ARMv8 include AMD, Broadcom, Calxeda, HiSilicon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics. AMD recently announced that it will be designing ARM processors in the future as well.
I mean, this development is great, but Legacy PC could be what?
Something along the line of the first core 2 duo? similar to a 1st gen athlon64?
Anyway, props to ARM c:
I mean, this development is great, but Legacy PC could be what?
Something along the line of the first core 2 duo? similar to a 1st gen athlon64?
Anyway, props to ARM c:
Or they could mean an 8088 running at 4.77 MHz, that's about as "legacy" as it gets!
legacy means instructions that are no longer used but are still supported for backward compatibility. Mostly in the x86 world it means the old x87 instructions and some of the intel instructions used in the first pentiums and such. The core 2 duo is positively modern compared to some of these instructions.
By contrast, ARM is a level playing field that anybody can join, x86 is going to whither away into nothing, good riddance...
AMD's R&D department couldn't keep up because Intel used it's position to bride OEMs into refusing to use AMD products....and in Dell's case, offered rebates, brides and altered payment schedules. In cases where OEMs refused to drop AMD base products, Intel made threats. In Compaq's case....Intel decided to intentionally ship an order of Xeon processors late because Compaq refused to drop their AMD based product lines.
Do a little research. This has all been proven.
I think I read somewhere a few years ago that Intel's R&D budget was AMDs ENTIRE budget as a company.
No source, just from memory.
Yeah, so what?
Is Intel better than AMD because of that? Nah, I dont think so.
Im just saying that your statement is irrelevant if you consider the total sizes and ratios of budgets. Sure it makes a lot of sense Intel's R&D matches the entire AMD value, but you have to remember that Intel is valued at what? Dozens if not hundreds of time AMDs value?
Besides, I dont know about you, but if AMD with its minuscule research budget managed to pull out Piledriver FX8350 and match or surpass the 2500k/3570k on many aspects (about 80% of the measurements here at Tom's) then well, I think that for their budget, Intel is wasting assloads of money and giving little to no advances recently. That is one serious feat from the red team, with everything against them and a 100 times smaller budget.
(Darn I sound like an AMD fanboy. I hate when it happens, but there is so many people throwing crap at a legit company that I feel the need to defend them)
@topic: thanks for the info about the 'legacy' meaning. I recognize myself ignorant about the former standards prior to what we know from Y2K
Bigger is not Always Better
Don't forget that AMD is the Holder of x64 architecture IP and most of Intel Processors are made off it, except Itanium of course.
you are joking right ?
To me, AMD has always lost, even when they were winning; and that, in my opinion, is why they are struggling to compete on performance now.