SAN JOSE, Calif. – Next week's Intel Developer Forum is shaping up as the next front in the battle over who will own the cloud and who will own the mobile client.
During
IDF in San Francisco, Intel will roll out new client and server products and initiatives to defend its turf in everything from ultrabooks to exascale supercomputers. It also will try to grab some territory in hot mobile markets like smartphones, tablets and the Internet of Things were it lacks a firm foothold today.
Arch-rivals Advanced Micro Devices and ARM are setting up flanking actions all across the same terrain. Here’s a bit of what it looks like from our vantage point.
Monday (Sept 10), AMD will host a press event to provide the first details about what it will do with the server technology it acquired with SeaMicro. We already know SeaMicro’s interconnect will form the basis of a follow on to HyperTransport AMD will name Freedom Fabric and try to make an industry standard for an ecosystem of x86 and ARM chips—a key plank for building big data center systems of all sorts.
SeaMicro used ASICs on its original boards to implement the proprietary interconnect now part of AMD’s Freedom Fabric.