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Syed Muhammad Usman Pirzada

AMD FX Series Making a Comeback Within Two Years

FX Series is f inally making a comeback. In two years time. This surprising revelation was given by AMD at theAPU 14 Conf erence in Beijing. Not only that, but AMD has avowed renewed vigor into establishing itself inthe Chinese market, which it considers a very important region f or die sales. Now we had already seensome FX labeled APUs in the Mobile Kaveri Lineup but the decision to revive the FX Series completelycouldn’t come at a better t ime.

APU14 Conference in Beijing – FX Series Making a Comeback in 2 Years,Establishing Focus on Chinese MarketWe dont really have any more details about the upcoming FX Series, apart f rom the f act that you willdef initely be seeing a new high perf ormance x86 (x86-64) architecture within two years. Now the moveabout AMD concentrating on the Chinese Market is itself very interesting. It is interesting because a bigchunk of the Chinese Market is DIY (do it yourself ) as opposed to OEM based. This would af f ectmanuf acturer tactics of shipping lower end products to OEMs. Inf act this very question was raised aboutKabini and AMD replied in a negative by stating that Kabini is not meant f or the high perf ormance demandingDIY sector and is mostly OEM based so it will not be appearing in the Chinese market anytime soon. Wealready know AMD has a new architecture planned f or 2016 and needless to say the f ollowing years aregoing to become very interesting f or Red.

On another note, Mullins f ared relatively bad and was not able to score any design wins. Design wins f rommanuf acturers are a much needed part of the lif e of any product a chipmaker like AMD produces and thef act that Mullins f ared as it did hints at a negative trend where the same is concerned. A rethinking of PRand product image might be a wise decision where Mullins is concerned.

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Regarding the new architecture itself , AMD did conf irm it that they are actually developing a new

architecture that will be built f rom the ground up unlike Excavator, Steamroller and Piledriver whichwere derivatives of the Bulldozer architecture. AMD’s top chip architect conf irmed this during the AMD CoreInnovation press seminar and revealed that in addition to K12 which is their latest x86 ARM corearchitecture, the company would also develop a new high-perf ormance architecture that will be gearedtowards FX line of processors and next gen servers in 2016.

Details remain a mystery, but we detailed how AMD will be ditching their existing modular architecture and gof or the Simultaneous Multi Threading (SMT) design. SMT or Simultaneous Multi Threading is a technologywhose roots trace back to IBM in the 1970s. However most prominently it is the technology that Intel hasemployed f or a decade, i.e. the f orce behind Hyper-Threading. AMD also revealed a technology of its ownto rival Intel’s SMT and unlike its rival it was Modular in Nature. This technology was homebrewed by AMDand was called the CMT or Clustered Multi Threading. However even at the time that CMTwas revealed, crit ics pointed it out as an unf easible idea.

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