AMD is all set to open another battlefront with Intel and Nvidia
New patent reveals AMD FPGA plans
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A new patent byAMDthat calls for integrating programmable execution units with a CPU shows that the company is all set to take onIntelandNvidiain the data center market.
According to reports, theAMDpatent describes a processor that can include one or more programmable execution units that can be made to handle different types of custom instruction sets. This sounds eerily similar to a Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), that are a type of semiconductor that can be altered even after they have been deployed.
Interestingly, AMD made its largest acquisition to date last year in October when it announced plans to take overXilinx, which specializes in FPGAs.
FPGAs in the data centers
The programmability of FPGAs often makes them slower than CPUs and even GPUs. On the upside though, it is exactly this ability for alteration that makes them far more versatile and useful virtual anywhere in a datacenter.
Before its acquisition, Xilinx had announced several products to help accelerate server workloads and other AI applications, which aligned it with AMD’s goals in competing withIntelandNvidiain the datacenter arena.
The patent, titled “Method and Apparatus for efficient programmable instructions in computer systems”, and published last week, describes a programmable unit that shares registers with the processor’s floating-point and integer execution units.
Reportedly this arrangement wouldn’t be very efficient unless all the different units are on the same platform. AMD is now capable of this kind of integration thanks to its newly acquired capabilities.
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With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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