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To: etchmeister who wrote (265665)	1/6/2011 9:53:28 AM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

>AMD ought to ride that train by creating the fastest ARM SoC out there. Territory I think Intel could not bring itself to tread on... SoC means (to me) integrating various functions provided by individual chips into one chip design (like TI's cell phone on a chip)while reducing cost significantly. SoC seems to be a buzz word lately - but that's what Intel is actually doing by integrating two critical functions into one chip - I am surprised nobody follows up on ercacer's post: Message 27056327; I was specifically talking about ARM SoC's, like TI's, Qualcomm's, and NVidia's. While it got off to a slow start, NVidia's Tegra 2 chip is going to be the coolest item out there once it gets to market (imminient). It's the core of Google's reference platform for Android Honeycomb, their first tablet-ready release. AMD has the means to leapfrog everyone in the race to create an ARM-based cpu/gpu/perhipheral combo chip that can hold its own in an inexpensive full-blown pc. Now that MS has blessed the architecture, there's every reason to believe that it can get the same kind of engineering attention that has pushed oddball x86 beyond every other better-planned architecture out there. And re: stacked-die memory for Ivy Bridge? Nice. Should make for some really fat memory pipes that are unfeasible over pins/pcb, or (less so) co-packaged like the eDRAM in AMD/ATI's Xenos GPU used in the Xbox 360. fpg