So this is a rumored Jesus of a cpu from AMD using the zen architecture and Greenland integrated graphics with HBM. The processor is said to support 4 channel ddr4, with all the dim sizes and ecc. The platform as a whole is supposed to have 64 lanes of pcie 3.0 connectivity, and the integrated Greenland graphics could have up to 16gb's of HBM memory. This model also is rocking 16 cores and 32 threads using AMD's iteration of hyperthreading which has been on many Intel processors over the years. The amounts of cache rumored are nothing to scoff at, with a total of 8MB of L2, and 32MB of L3. What do you all think about this? 16 core APU total crazy rumor-mill stuff that'll not be close to what actually comes out, or reliable information? If this does come out, and zen is as fast as we all hope it is, them Intel is going better have something amazing with Broadwell-E and Skylake-E. Especially on the server side where something like this APU could crush everything. We already have 18 core Xeon's, but they better be something amazing with Broadwell-E.
Oh yeah there is no way we're getting this part for less then a 5960x. This thing is going to be a really expensive enthusiast part or server part. But, AMD being AMD we could see them do what they've been doing with radeon and under cut intel in price and performance just like the 290x and OG titan.
Only time will tell, this is really AMD's end game, i have faith in Jim Keller to bring AMD back up to where they used to be, but this is something AMD does NOT want to fuck up right now. if this fails it will probably put them under. we already know they are losing money.
I think a Samsung acquisition would end up focussing the company's R&D mainly on the mobile market. I don't think it would be good for their desktop stuff.
Considering the Nexus 9 compareso to a 2009 Mac Pro in benches I'm bot so sure the mobile market is too far behind in terms of sheer CPU power honestly. The only reason I don't really care for the mobile market is that there really isn't any full os support for things such as Fedora and SUSE.
In 2011, they hire on the Cyanogenmod team to develop ROM's for Samsung mobile devices. Two years later, Steve Kondik quits Samsung after criticizing TouchWiz (Which yes, is shit). Even though this may not seem as a powerful argument, acquisition can be a bad thing. It doesn't always benefit both parties, nor the industry.
There you're correct, but then again I will not use anything besides stock Android to begin with (CyanogenMod is the best creation ever). Touch Wiz looks like a Hi developed by Fisher Price :)
All these numbers yet we haven't known if it's 300mhz or 1ghz? I'm not interested unless it's at least 3Ghz. They shoulda put this in PS4 or Xbox, maybe it could play games at 4k res lol.
