During its press event AMD had quite a lot to show regarding both ARM and x86 designs and while Project Skybridge, a pin-compatible ARM Cortex-A57 and x86 Puma+ based SoCs, are coming next year, AMD also shed some light on what to expect in 2016, a new custom 64-bit ARMv8 CPU core, codenamed K12, as well as a new 64-bit x86 design.


Currently AMD did not reveal many details regarding the K12 but judging from the timeframe these are coming, it is believed that these will most likely be based on 14/16nm FinFET manufacturing process and according to AMD, should target server, embedded, semi-custom and ultra-low power client markets.

The design team will be led by Jim Keller, the guy that was behind AMD's K8 as well as Apple's A4/A5 SoCs, and hopefully, we will hear more details regarding both the ARM K12 as well as the yet-to-be-named x86 counterpart.







Source: AMD.com.