I had asked about combination of PowerPC G5 / AMCC 3 GHz + Clearspeed, but Clearspeed said that PowerPC on desktop is already DEAD and nobody use PowerPC on desktop computer anymore.
AMD plan to use Clearspeed as a co-processor for competition against Cell.
From Electronics Weekly:
Clearspeed, the Bristol parallel processor company, is in talks with AMD about developing a closely-coupled co-processor to soup up the AMD multi-core family of x86 processors.
“Clearspeed is talking to AMD about producing a closely-coupled co-processor,” said Jeff Underhill, business development manager for 64-bit embedded applications at AMD.
Behind the talks are worries that it is not achieving sufficient performance out of its multi-core processors. Stoking those concerns was the stunning performance of the Sony/Toshiba/IBM microprocessor Cell.
“Cell was a wake up call. Absolutely, things are underway at AMD as a result in looking at future products,” said Underhill.
The immediate future product for AMD is QuadCore, due out next year, a four-core microprocessor delivering 20Gflops which doubles the performance of AMD’s current two-core product, DualCore, which delivers 10Gflops.
