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

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FuriouslyAdrift ◴[31 Oct 25 14:40 UTC] No.45772467[source]▶
AMD has been making ARM chips for a long time (they bought Xilinx and have been an ARM licensee for forever). This is just their first APU (graphics plus cpu) with an ARM core as the CPU.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/soc....

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1. jauntywundrkind ◴[01 Nov 25 06:47 UTC] No.45779697[source]▶
It's just 100% different because it's never actually been AMD before selling arm (xilinx was its own company that and merely acquired; AMD had no stake in making the chips you refer to, nor any arm).

(except the shitty Seattle (2014), that for the record was not good. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/seattle But today I want to believe AMD knows how to make better chips and actually support them ok).

And remember meanwhile that AMD has been trying to drop its GPUs on other folks for years. Samsung (2023) https://www.pcmag.com/news/more-amd-radeon-gpus-coming-to-sa... and Intel https://www.techpowerup.com/242134/intel-hades-canyon-nuc-ar... (2018). Here they do their own arm.