AMD today posted a video on YouTube named "Thought Leadership & AMD Vision", which was promptly removed a couple of hours later. It was a presentation held towards the end of June or July. I listened to it with half an ear while running after our kid, and I did think that the presenter was far more direct than what's usual from an official presentation. The presentation ran for about 45 minutes and the last five minutes I didn't finish in time - which was on AMD's next rack architecture.
Did any of you see this presentation? Any salient points you picked up on?
Some tidbits I remember:
X86 ISA collaboration
He mentioned that AMD and Intel are collaborating on security, matrix instructions (I think this is new. My previous understanding was that AMD would focus on vector instructions), and something about page size (?).
Zen6
He mentioned that Zen6 had been in the lab for a while, that it was running Linux (I think he just meant that it runs a normal OS), that it was looking extremely good, and that it would easily meet its deadlines. I remember thinking that he said this latter part in a way that implied that AMD could launch it earlier.
CDNA
Mentioned that MI4XX would have two different compute unit dies; one optimized for HPC (more 64 bit), and one optimized for AI (less 64 bit). This isn't news I think.
Foundry
He mentioned that AMD fabs with TSMC, GloFo, and that AMD fabs with Samsung. I didn't know that AMD fabs with Samsung. He also mentioned that AMD would have fabbed with Intel, were it not for Intel's process being so far behind. He really dug into that one.
Other
He also talked about networking, stating how AMD's networking had superior performance in some dimensions. A lot of the presentation was on more standard AMD talking points; performance, openness, execution.
Did any of you see this presentation? Any salient points you picked up on?
Some tidbits I remember:
X86 ISA collaboration
He mentioned that AMD and Intel are collaborating on security, matrix instructions (I think this is new. My previous understanding was that AMD would focus on vector instructions), and something about page size (?).
Zen6
He mentioned that Zen6 had been in the lab for a while, that it was running Linux (I think he just meant that it runs a normal OS), that it was looking extremely good, and that it would easily meet its deadlines. I remember thinking that he said this latter part in a way that implied that AMD could launch it earlier.
CDNA
Mentioned that MI4XX would have two different compute unit dies; one optimized for HPC (more 64 bit), and one optimized for AI (less 64 bit). This isn't news I think.
Foundry
He mentioned that AMD fabs with TSMC, GloFo, and that AMD fabs with Samsung. I didn't know that AMD fabs with Samsung. He also mentioned that AMD would have fabbed with Intel, were it not for Intel's process being so far behind. He really dug into that one.
Other
He also talked about networking, stating how AMD's networking had superior performance in some dimensions. A lot of the presentation was on more standard AMD talking points; performance, openness, execution.
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