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AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process

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283 points walterbell | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 03:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dwood_dev ◴[31 Oct 25 04:59 UTC] No.45768578[source]▶
My guess from previous reporting on this, it was an experiment that might not ever be released.

ARM isn't nearly as interesting given the strides both Intel and AMD have made with low power cores.

Any scenario where SoundWave makes sense, using Zen-LP cores align better for AMD.

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spockz ◴[31 Oct 25 06:08 UTC] No.45768886[source]▶
It is interesting for AMD because having a on-par ARM chip means they can keep selling chips when the rest of the market switch to ARM. This is largely driven by Apple and by the cloud providers wanting more efficient higher density chips.

Apple isn’t going to switch back to AMD64 any time soon. Cloud providers will switch faster if X64 chips become really competitive again.

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codedokode ◴[31 Oct 25 06:23 UTC] No.45768959[source]▶
I am not sure if cloud providers want ARM - the most valuable resource is rack space, so you want to use the most powerful CPU, not the one using less energy.
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1. imtringued ◴[31 Oct 25 09:39 UTC] No.45770060[source]▶
Rack space limits include power limits. E.g. 10kw per rack.