ARM and Intel have proposed hybrid architectures with a high-performance but economical processor . AMD shows its interest in this type of processor, but confirms that there are still obstacles in terms of the operating systems and software used.
AMD wants to move forward but not alone!
An old patent from 2017 surfaced and suggested that AMD is seriously looking at a hybrid processor model to respond to Intel's Lakefield and Alder Lake The latter will in fact be released in 2021. AMD Vice President and Technical Product Director Joe Macri announces that AMD is indeed studying this case, but the Company has not yet arrived at concrete plans. AMD confirms that to achieve this, it is still necessary to go through optimizations of operating systems and software which must correctly support hybrid architectures.
Adjustments should be made to memory allocation and the scheduler. AMD has already been on this project called Big Little for more than 15 years and it will always meet the challenge of producing high-performance hardware that consumes as little energy as possible.
Performance also depends on the software
Joe Macri announces that AMD expects the operating system and software to know how to manage memory allocation and properly schedule operations to the appropriate cores. In this case, AMD will produce less complex cores, therefore less energy-consuming. The result will be notable in this case.
There will therefore be areas for improvement to be seriously studied by system and software developers so that everything can benefit from hardware improvements.
