AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process

[KingOfPain]

Unlike the K12, Sound Wave sounds like a mobile processor rather than a server one.

AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process

AMD is expanding its processor portfolio beyond the x86 architecture with its first ARM-based APU, internally known as “Sound Wave. ” The chip’s existence was uncovered through customs import records, confirming several details about its design and purpose.

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[Cmaier]

Unlike the K12, Sound Wave sounds like a mobile processor rather than a server one.

AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process

AMD is expanding its processor portfolio beyond the x86 architecture with its first ARM-based APU, internally known as “Sound Wave. ” The chip’s existence was uncovered through customs import records, confirming several details about its design and purpose.

www.guru3d.com

If it’s for mobile, I don’t see the market? In that market you really need to supply the entire chipset (including baseband, etc.); buying the CPU from AMD and the 5G from qualcomm or whatever is not going to make monetary sense I’d think.

 

[dada_dave]

If it’s for mobile, I don’t see the market? In that market you really need to supply the entire chipset (including baseband, etc.); buying the CPU from AMD and the 5G from qualcomm or whatever is not going to make monetary sense I’d think.

Other chip companies managed to carve out market share in Android mobile but … yeah there’s a reason Qualcomm is so dominant and I believe most if not all of those have their own baseband chips. It’s definitely hard. Maybe AMD has a partnership lined up with someone?

 

[KingOfPain]

If it’s for mobile, I don’t see the market?

I also found it odd, but 5W to 10W and 16GB onboard RAM doesn't sound like a server processor to me.
They call it APU, so it should just be CPU, GPU, and RAM interface, I think.
But maybe it's a misnomer and it's a fullblown SoC?

But you are right, there are already many competitors in that market.

 

[exoticspice1]

If it’s for mobile, I don’t see the market? In that market you really need to supply the entire chipset (including baseband, etc.); buying the CPU from AMD and the 5G from qualcomm or whatever is not going to make monetary sense I’d think.

not phone mobile but rather for tablet/laptops. Its going into a MS surface windows tablet

 

[casperes1996]

AMD is really big in handheld PCs these days. I wouldn’t be surprised if the market for this was similar to ryzen z1