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AMD 'Piledriver' Core-based chips to use Resonant Clocking to reduce power

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    AMD 'Piledriver' Core-based chips to use Resonant Clocking to reduce power

    4GHz and up clocks for Piledriver-based chips, thanks to resonant clock mesh technology:

    Cyclos Semiconductor, the inventor and only supplier of resonant clock mesh technology for commercial IC designs, today announced at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, CA that AMD has successfully implemented Cyclos’ low-power semiconductor intellectual property (IP) in the AMD x86 core destined for inclusion in Opteron server processors and client Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). The adoption of the Cyclos resonant clock mesh IP to reduce power consumption demonstrates the commitment AMD has made to provide its customers with not only class-leading APU performance but also with the lowest possible power consumption.

    AMD’s 4+ GHz x86-64 core code-named “Piledriver” employs resonant clocking to reduce clock distribution power up to 24% while maintaining the low clock-skew target required by high-performance processors. Fabricated in a 32nm CMOS process, Piledriver represents the first volume production-enabled implementation of resonant clock mesh technology.

    “We were able to seamlessly integrate the Cyclos IP into our existing clock mesh design process so there was no risk to our development schedule,” said Samuel Naffziger, Corporate Fellow at AMD. “Silicon results met our power reduction expectations, we incurred no increase in silicon area, and we were able to use our standard manufacturing process, so the investment and risk in adopting resonant clock mesh technology was well worth it as all of our customers are clamoring for more energy efficient processor designs.”


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    Sounds like it would affect oc'ing for the better as well.

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      #3
      I don't know, this seems to maintain the low clock skew required while reducing power, but that skew constraining might not scale with uber clocks as well - it could just add a cap to clock limits (functionally no difference in OC'ing due to voltage/cooling, thinking about LN2/LH experiments).

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        #4
        I wonder if this tech will make it to the gpu, considering an APU is also a GPU? Meaning AMD lead in power/performance over Nvidia would be more like a Grand Cayon then a very large trench.
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          Originally posted by noko View Post
          I wonder if this tech will make it to the gpu, considering an APU is also a GPU? Meaning AMD lead in power/performance over Nvidia would be more like a Grand Cayon then a very large trench.
          That's true. I hope it will make it to the GPU.
          Hello :)

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