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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 | 4 comments | 31 Oct 25 03:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | source
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stevefan1999 ◴[31 Oct 25 05:54 UTC] No.45768818[source]▶
Legendary Chip Architect, Jim Keller, Says AMD ‘Stupidly Cancelled’ K12 ARM CPU Project After He Left The Company: https://wccftech.com/legendary-chip-architect-jim-keller-say...

Could be a revival but for different purposes

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high_na_euv ◴[31 Oct 25 09:22 UTC] No.45769959[source]▶
Funny how some of his projects got cancelled like K12 at AMD or Royal Core at INTC and people always act like that was terrible decision, yet AMD is up like 100x on stock market and INTC... times gonna tell
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1. Keyframe ◴[31 Oct 25 10:10 UTC] No.45770287[source]▶
is stock up because of them or despite them?
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2. high_na_euv ◴[31 Oct 25 10:14 UTC] No.45770310[source]▶
It is hard to evaluate it reliably.
3. nolok ◴[31 Oct 25 11:59 UTC] No.45771064[source]▶
In the case of AMD it's definitely because of them and the great leadership from Lisa Su.
4. bee_rider ◴[31 Oct 25 15:26 UTC] No.45773124[source]▶
AMD is doing well because they moved on chiplets before Intel did. The decision of ARM vs x86 is pretty much unrelated to the move that saved them, and sticking with the architecture with which they had decades of experience was probably a good idea.

I mean Keller is talking about a decision to not pursue an ARM chip that he’d apparently been working on after(?) Zen 2 (or maybe in parallel). So AMD was already back on a good path at that point.