AMD Announces Plans To Increase APU Energy Efficiency – Details The 25 x 20 Plan.

[Boomstick777]

Advanced Micro Devices – AMD today announced plans to improve the energy efficiency of its APUs. The goal, as stated by the company is to increase APU energy efficiency 25x times by the year 2020. AMD’s chief technology officer, Mark Papermaster highlighted the details of the company’s plans at the China International Software and Service Fair conference being held in Dailan China. When we compare this to the current efficiency of the company’s product, the target set is a high one indeed. From the years 2008-2014 the energy efficiency of the company’s products has increased by 10%. The company is to significantly surpass this achievement in the next six years through various architectural plans, as announced in China.

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“Through APU architectural enhancements and intelligent power efficient techniques, our customers can expect to see us dramatically improve the energy efficiency of our processors during the next several years. Setting a goal to improve the energy efficiency of our processors 25 times by 2020 is a measure of our commitment and confidence in our approach.”

AMD’s hopes of increasing the efficiency of its devices are very optimistic indeed. The company expects to outpace performance gains predicted by Moore’s law by 70% between 2014 and 2020.

 

[Jumper118]

well they are 170% behind moore's law at the moment so they need to get their arses into gear. they better keep up to this because they are miles behind and i wouldn't mind a decent amd cpu again.

 

[joeyjojo]

25x = 96% reduction. The 8350 has a TDP of 125 W. Are they really expecting to be down at 5 W within 6 years? What do they mean by "energy efficiency"? FLOPS/watt? So confused!

Edit: or is it a meaningless statement, not "a factor of 25" as it appears, but specifically making 25 energy efficiency improvments?

 

[Orangey]

Reading TFA it seems they are going by FLOPS/W.

Meaning some competition at long LONG last...

 

[Tute]

Heh, there I was thinking maybe CPU coolers were going to become a thing of the past.

 

[pmc25]

25x = 96% reduction. The 8350 has a TDP of 125 W. Are they really expecting to be down at 5 W within 6 years? What do they mean by "energy efficiency"? FLOPS/watt? So confused!

Edit: or is it a meaningless statement, not "a factor of 25" as it appears, but specifically making 25 energy efficiency improvments?

It means performance per watt. Bear in mind that the overwhelming majority of improvement here is going to be on the GPU side of the APU, not the CPU. 25x is a rather bold number, but probably possible. Also bear in mind that future 'big' ARM APUs will be a lot more efficient right off the bat than their current x86 APUs.