During its press event AMD has already demoed the 28nm eight-core Seattle ARM Cortex-A57 based server chip but more interesting is what AMD has prepared for next two years, including the Project Skybridge, a pin-compatible ARM and x86 based SoCs which are coming next year.


AMD describes the Project Skybridge as an ambidextrous design framework. The Project Skybridge will be based on a low-power 20nm Cortex-A57 based SoC with integrated GCN GPU which will be pin-compatible with AMD's next-gen low-power x86 SoC, one based on Puma+ cores. The new platform will bring full HSA support as well as be ther first AMD platform to officially support Android.

While we probably will not see standard socketed desktop motherboard which are compatible with both ARM and x86 APUs, the pin-compatibility also makes the life easier for embedded BGA solutions, which are exactly the target for AMD with these SoCs.

Of course, all of these are low-power, low performance Cortex A57 and Puma+ CPU cores and we are yet to see if AMD has similar plans for higher performance market segments.






Source: AMD.com.