News Open Compute unveils AMD Open 3.0, Intel photonics

[Gareth Halfacree]

Modular motherboards and high-speed interconnects.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...open-compute/1

[SinxarKnights]

Sorry I couldn't help myself. That's all I could think about when I read that.

[yougotkicked]

Who else thinks AMD's new platform seems rather dull in comparison to Intel's silicon photonics?

The idea of instituting a new motherboard standard that aims to meet everyone's interests to replace the old standard they critique for attempting to do just that, sounds ill-advised. And the design hardly seems suitable to HPC use when it only provides 1.5 PCI slots.

The photonics on the other hand, are really exciting. A super-high-speed interconnect like that could be quite valuable to the super-computing industry, where communication between processing nodes is always one of the biggest bottlenecks on performance.

[fluxtatic]

Originally Posted by yougotkicked

Who else thinks AMD's new platform seems rather dull in comparison to Intel's silicon photonics?

I kinda hate to say it, but you sound like the guy coming down on a 5-year-old for being a bad artist when the kid's playing with his crayons next to Salvadore Dali.

Let's see, Intel is, give or take, at least a full generation ahead of AMD and is currently sitting on several billion dollars. Meanwhile, AMD spent 5 years reinventing NetBurst, and Rory Reed is currently contemplating offering $5 handies in the porn theater down the street to keep the company afloat.

[Fujukami]

And your point is? Its not like Intel is to blame for AMD's lack of progress. And yes, for Silicon Photonics.

Originally Posted by fluxtatic

I kinda hate to say it, but you sound like the guy coming down on a 5-year-old for being a bad artist when the kid's playing with his crayons next to Salvadore Dali.

Let's see, Intel is, give or take, at least a full generation ahead of AMD and is currently sitting on several billion dollars. Meanwhile, AMD spent 5 years reinventing NetBurst, and Rory Reed is currently contemplating offering $5 handies in the porn theater down the street to keep the company afloat.