An engineering sample of AMD's long awaited 8 core server SOC code named "Hierofalcon" has been spotted and tested and according to WCCF Tech it looked pretty good. It is based around 8 ARM-64bit A57 cores running at 2.0Ghz. And although Hierofalcon maxes out at frugal TDP of 30W.
So even the promising reviews aren't enough for AMD to be optimistic about the ARM based gear.
AMD says its ARM efforts are seeing weaker-than-expected reception
Posted on Monday, October 19 2015 @ 13:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck