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AMD Heterogeneous System Architecture

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http://www.techradar.com/us/news/comput ... t-936589/1
What this means is that each CPU and graphics core in a Kaveri chip can now be running a separate process, in its own memory space, independent from the others. It's a new way of doing things which AMD says requires a brand new term, "compute cores", to help compare them properly. Kaveri's A10-7850K with 4 CPU and 8 GPU cores can now be considered to have twelve "compute cores", for example (an AMD white paper [PDF] explains more).
(excerpt from article)

hmmmmmmm ?????

I've been hunting motherboards recently and notice many offerings lack onboard graphics chipsets -- customer to install a graphics card then in a PCI slot.....

but: if these new AMD chips will have graphics integrated into the cpu chip then..... the motherboard will need the DVI and HDMI interfaces but really no graphics chipset. I'm guessing this will need a new socket -- AM3+ would be superseded with a new socket supporting this new method of supporting graphics...

[ drool ]
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Re: AMD Heterogeneous System Architecture

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You realize AMD's APU's have been around for quite some time, right?
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