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Re: Rambus Validates Interoperability of DDR4 High-performance Memory IP Solution for Arm-based Datacenter Systemsstkhawk, I agree - the first potential customer I though of was Qualcomm. However, after reading this, I realized that there could be more than Qualcomm. If so, I believe that's good news because there's no guarantee that Qualcomm will make it in the ARM server space. What's good is that ARM's controller controls a lot more than just server processors - it controls FPGA and GPU accelerators as well. That could open up the market significantly: << Intel, natch, has been at the forefront of the FPGA wave since last year’s acquisition of Altera Group. The result, says Enterprise Tech’s George Leopold, is a multi-die SoC that integrates a monolithic FPGA fabric capable of supporting multiple networking protocols. Earlier this month, the company started sampling its newest FPGA, the Stratix 10, which is optimized for data-heavy applications spanning the data center and distributed IoT devices. The Stratix-10 doubles the core performance over previous chip generations, delivering 10 teraflops of single-precision floating-point calculations and 10 tbps memory bandwidth. The Stratix 10 also incorporates the quad-core 64-bit Cortex A53 designed by ARM Holdings, which makes it feasible that it could eventually take advantage of several new backplane technologies developed by ARM. These include the CoreLink CMN-600 coherent mesh network interconnect and the CoreLink DMC-620 dynamic memory controller, both of which are designed to help FPGAs, GPUs and other network acceleration devices deal with the increasingly disparate workloads migrating to the cloud. The DMC-620, for example, supports up to eight channels of DDR4-3200 memory, plus 3D stacked DRAM, to deliver upwards of 1 TB per channel. At the same time, the Agile System Cache intelligent data allocation system boosts data sharing between processors, accelerators and interfaces.>> |
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