The problem with AMD's A1100 paper launch (after a two year-delay) sorted itself out for me with SolidRun's Armada 8040 board. In the meantime I've managed to port a good deal of code to ARMv8 on my "workhorse" RK3368, so I can start benchmarking and performance-tuning as soon as the 8040 arrives in October. When there's a desire there's a solution.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostMore like 3 years, and it is a total redesign.
finishing whatever they begun as changing course now would have wasted the development effort.
That said, ARM space is a very high-competition low-margin market in the consumer segment you talked about.
Big companies don't give a shit about lack of support, they want stuff that works decently now and costs a few bucks. Mediatek usually wins here.
AMD GPUs aren't in high demand in embedded market where at most you need to display 2D content, and I doubt they can make a decent GPU for mobile (decent = powerful AND low-power enough).
Zen is in active development more than 3 years now & we only had a glimpse at prototype recently so all in all you will find my prediction of 5 years as pretty much accurate one.
What development efforts? Licensing a POP IP cores from ARM & putting them together with available GPU's from APU's. I ensure you how that require a bare minimum of development efforts. Actually MTK risen doing it like that.
& I don't give a shit what big companies give shit about so I will always give my money rather to Qualcomm than MTK & certainly not because I love Qualcomm but because I love to know what I am putting in & that I am able to control & alter it (Code Aurora).
I am not certain that you even know what embedded is. Their mostly aren't any dedicated GPU's in embedded microcontroller products not even 2D ones.
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Originally posted by Zola View PostWouldn't call a Smart TV SoC market neither lo margin nor overflowing with competition one.
Zen is in active development more than 3 years now & we only had a glimpse at prototype recently so all in all you will find my prediction of 5 years as pretty much accurate one.
What development efforts? Licensing a POP IP cores from ARM & putting them together with available GPU's from APU's. I ensure you how that require a bare minimum of development efforts. Actually MTK risen doing it like that.
& I don't give a shit what big companies give shit about
so I will always give my money rather to Qualcomm than MTK
I am not certain that you even know what embedded is. Their mostly aren't any dedicated GPU's in embedded microcontroller products not even 2D ones.
And yes, more often than not (if they have a screen at all) they only have display controllers, more rarely 2D GPUs, VERY VERY VERY rarely 3D capable GPUs.
So I don't see why the fuck would someone actually care about AMD's good 3D GPUs in that segment.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postthat will make intel monopoly, so it is not that simple
Although Intel is already in monopoly in server and laptop, and near-monopoly in desktop market.
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