Chipmaker hopes to ape Intel’s success with new processing core, reports P G Tips
These days, processor manufacturers really need to think ahead. First AMD outlined its future plans to integrate the GPU onto the processor die. But in what is seen as the most radical move yet, the company is planning to use the space savings of its new 65nm production process to integrate a simulated on-die primate. Current designs specify a chimpanzee, but the modular approach of the Direct Connect architecture will also allow an orang-utan or tribe of gibbons should the market require them.
‘Over the last few months, we have grown tired of Intel making a monkey out of us,’ explained AMD’s new PR representative, David Attenborough. ‘We realised some serious gorilla tactics would be needed to fight back.’ The apes will help accelerate Windows Vista by moving pixels around using their supple, dextrous hands.
First, a single chimpanzee will be integrated alongside the processing cores. But AMD is already hinting at a ‘go native’ quad-chimpanzee design with individual primates communicating via a fast Hominid Transport bus. This contrasts with the Intel strategy of forcing macaques to work as independent pairs.
Each on-die chimpanzee will incorporate multiple 128-bit Streaming Simian Extension (SSE) registers. The new core will also be capable of Habitat Virtualisation, in case AMD is threatened with extinction. However, by 2020 AMD hopes that its on-die chimpanzees will have evolved via a process of natural selection into CPUs with fully integrated homo sapiens. This will give AMD a distinct technological lead over Intel’s primarily lemur-based architecture.
First, a single chimpanzee will be integrated alongside the processing cores. But AMD is already hinting at a ‘go native’ quad-chimpanzee design with individual primates communicating via a fast Hominid Transport bus. This contrasts with the Intel strategy of forcing macaques to work as independent pairs.
Each on-die chimpanzee will incorporate multiple 128-bit Streaming Simian Extension (SSE) registers. The new core will also be capable of Habitat Virtualisation, in case AMD is threatened with extinction. However, by 2020 AMD hopes that its on-die chimpanzees will have evolved via a process of natural selection into CPUs with fully integrated homo sapiens. This will give AMD a distinct technological lead over Intel’s primarily lemur-based architecture.
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