AMD Talks Next Generation Coherent Interconnect Fabric Connecting Polaris GPUs, Zen CPUs and HPC APU

[humbug]

For X86 Nvidia would need a licence from Intel
For consumer boards they would also need an X86_64 licence from AMD.

Not gona happen.

 

[Stanners]

Or they could simply partner with Intel as if AMD used there own chipset this could push the two together

 

[Orangey]

This reminds me of the days when CUDA was just coming out. Nobody knew what it was but hyped it up to be some magical game-speeder-upper.

This is an interconnect for supercomputers. No need to make threads about it.

 

[humbug]

Or they could simply partner with Intel as if AMD used there own chipset this could push the two together

They would still need the 64Bit licence from AMD.

 

[Stanners]

They would still need the 64Bit licence from AMD.

They would get it through Intel, the same as AMD get the x86 license from Intel in order to be able to use the x86_64 feature. Its like ever decreasing circles

Edit: I would just like to add that I do not think any of this would happen, just pie in the sky stuff.

 

[humbug]

They would get it through Intel, the same as AMD get the x86 license from Intel in order to be able to use the x86_64 feature. Its like ever decreasing circles

Edit: I would just like to add that I do not think any of this would happen, just pie in the sky stuff.

It depends if Intel's AMD64 Licence allows them to sub-licence it to other vendors. i very much doubt it.

AMD don't licence Intels X86 to other vendors, they are not allowed, they can only use it for stuff they make.

Windows is an AMD64 architecture. Of course also X86.

 

[Stanners]

Yes and that is why Nvidia would have to work under Intel, Intel supply the chipset and interconnects to work on a Nvidia card based system. But as you say we have No idea what the license agreements are and it would never happen anyway for all sorts of reasons.

 

[humbug]

Yes and that is why Nvidia would have to work under Intel, Intel supply the chipset and interconnects to work on a Nvidia card based system. But as you say we have No idea what the license agreements are and it would never happen anyway for all sorts of reasons.

Nvidia would have to be Intel, that what i'm saying. it would be sub-Licensing as Nvidia are a separate company to Intel.

Its a bit like the Car company Koenigsegg who use Mercedes engines under licence saying to Ford you can use our engine, they can't, its not their engine to give away.

 

[Mauller]

Or it can work if someone made an intermediary chip that converts between Coherent FAbric and Nvlink for amd cpus' and QPI and NVlink for Intel CPU's. but i don;t think any consumer Intel CPU's have any QPI connections.

but then that chipwould add latency. which is another issue again. then that chip manufacturer needing liscenes for QPI and Nvlink. considering Coherent Fabric will be Open like Hypertransport. i think Coherent fabric is replacing Hypertransport by the looks of things.