While watching the stream this afternoon, I noticed it mentioned GCN replacement. Now, I’m not the best person to divine the finer intracacies on this topic and the potential function of this design, so I ask for people to chime in that may be interested and more capable at that. With that said, the information is presented “as is and with all faults.”
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Id. - This can help finding the text of the patent application with the US PTO, or you can use these sites that reposted the content of the patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20180121386.pdf
https://patents.justia.com/patent/20180121386
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2018/0121386.html
Official government site of patent application
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=super-SIMD&OS=super-SIMD&RS=super-SIMD
Article discussing patent and one person’s interpretation of the patent.
Here are a couple patents some have suggested might be worth reading:
Low Power and Low Latency GPU Coprocessor for Persistent Computing
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1="gpu+coprocessor"&s2="persistent+computing"&OS="gpu+coprocessor"+AND+"persistent+computing"&RS="gpu+coprocessor"+AND+"persistent+computing"
Identifying Primitives in Input Index Stream
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1="identifying+primitives"&s2="input+index+stream"&OS="identifying+primitives"+AND+"input+index+stream"&RS="identifying+primitives"+AND+"input+index+stream"
Identifying Duplicate Indices in an Input Index Stream
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1="identifying+primitives"&s2="input+index+stream"&OS="identifying+primitives"+AND+"input+index+stream"&RS="identifying+primitives"+AND+"input+index+stream"
Here is a video discussing it a bit at RedGamingTech:
List of AMD recent patent applications:
https://companyprofiles.justia.com/company/amd/patents/application
And an article discussing how AMD put like 2/3rds of their engineering resource on Navi, which was supposedly designed for Sony and PS5:
There isn’t a lot out there other than speculation, but this is the rumored GCN successor (which makes sense, hence reporting on the rumor). Anyone that wants to chime in on the speculation, please, feel free!
@wendell - this is what I was referring to in chat.