AMD is in no hurry to implement heterogeneous architecture, but is actively developing it

Already this year, new Intel processors with a heterogeneous architecture may appear on the market. AMD is also working on such an architecture, but is in no hurry to implement it. Why – told the resource Prohardverreferring to information from OEM suppliers.

AMD does not see a proper commitment by developers to optimize their applications for heterogeneous processors. This point of view was formed by the company while observing the mobile market, where ARM processors from several clusters are actively used. Until now, most applications use only one cluster without reallocating the load

Intel’s hybrid architecture is not yet encouraging. It is possible that the company will come to an agreement with many professional software developers to implement the necessary optimizations. But will the average user get an advantage?

At the end of December, AMD registered a patent for integrating a mini-processor into the processor, which will take over the primary processing of tasks. Patent discovered Twitter blogger @ Underfox3… While the mini-processor copes with the load, the complexes of productive cores will be disabled. Possibly, scenarios of joint work will be implemented as well.