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I'm interested to hear about this as well. I might be confabulating a bit, but just a bit, but I remember hearing Keller say that Zen is structured that way that there's nothing stopping them creating a different ISA frontend and say putting out an Arm processor instead of X64. That it actually wouldn't be much.



My guess was that that was a reference to the PSP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...


No, AMD’s Zen had a sister uArch that was ARM-based[1]. They were originally targeting it for servers, but ended up releasing only one or two fairly bog standard ARM cores before abandoning the venture.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12


You're right. I read the anandtech interview and it is clear that that is what he's referring to.


So, AMD's IME?


Yes, exactly. Assuming that was what it referred to, it makes good sense to me.




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