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AMD Hierofalcon surfaced — 2 GHz octacore 28nm ARM chip

by Muhammad FirdausOctober 17, 2015
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Early 2014, AMD released their first ARM-based microprocessor, named Opteron A1100 but it did not set off big waves in the market. Today after a year, a new embedded ARM solution by AMD has surfaced, codenamed Hierofalcon and is ready to make its debut soon.

“October 2014, we started our first one on 64 ARM Cortex-A57 architecture SoC sampling AMD Embedded R-Series processors, codenamed Hierofalcon. AMD Embedded R-Series SoC platform for embedded data center applications, communications infrastructure, industrial design, is expected to ship the first half of 2015. “

Hierofalcon is a single-chip design of SoC, based on ARM Cortex-A57 CPU, which AMD has packed eight of them running at 2.0 GHz. 1MB Level 2 (L2) cache will be shared between every two cores, for a total of 4MB while 8MB of Level 3 cache (L3) will be shared by the entire CPU.

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The Hierofalcon will support both DDR3 or DDR4 dual channel RAM depending on the memory controller used. It will also support SO-DIMM, U-DIMM, RDIMM memory sticks of up to 1866 MHz speed, with a maximum of 128GB RAM per CPU.

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Input and output (I/O) on this chip is amazing, it’s supports dual 10Gbs Gigabit Ethernet controller, eight S-ATA 6Gbs, SPI, UART and I2C. Security is important at enterprise level, thus Hierofalcon comes with AMD TrustZone technology, cryptographic co-processor and Freedom Fibre Channel.

 

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It will come in BGA packaging, 30W TDP and even ARM design, so how well will this chip performs over the X86 processor? Yesterday there’s a leak of this chip’s performance compared to some of Intel and AMD desktop chips, and below is a snippet of the leak.

As seen in the graphs above, I could say than the Hierofalcon kicks the asses of certain AMD desktop chips in single core performance, but as expected, it will never beat the desktop chips in multi core workloads. In terms of power efficiency, the Hierofalcon looks like it will do a good job with the low 30W TDP, but note that this is still not the final product and it is supposed to be more power efficient when released.

 

Pokdepinion : The AMD Hierofalcon is an ARM based microprocessor, and it’s not meant to replace current CPUs for gaming. The AMD Hierofalcon is a quite interesting chip based on ARM and has a low TDP.

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Muhammad Firdaus
I love technology, so I love AMD.

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