Comment on AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014parentComments−bryanlarsen13yYup, I had read the article the other way around. Designing their own ARM core didn't make much sense to me. Using someone else's does.−stonemetal13yConsidering AMD is now a fabless chip design shop, not doing any design work doesn't make sense to me. What is their value add? They may as well have ordered a shipment of completed processors from Nvidia.−bryanlarsen13yIn this case, the value add is the processor interconnect fabric. In other cases, it will be their GPU.
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Yup, I had read the article the other way around. Designing their own ARM core didn't make much sense to me. Using someone else's does.
Considering AMD is now a fabless chip design shop, not doing any design work doesn't make sense to me. What is their value add? They may as well have ordered a shipment of completed processors from Nvidia.
In this case, the value add is the processor interconnect fabric. In other cases, it will be their GPU.