AMD to Test Upcoming Bobcat Processors in Servers

"We're definitely in the process of examining this as a design point," said Donald Newell, AMD's new server chief technology officer, in an interview. "It would be foolish not to."
"There's only a few papers ... and there's a lot more data to collect," Newell said. "It really depends on a number of factors ... to whether or not that's a good design point."
"It's hard for Arm to move up in the server world, like x86 would be to move down to dishwashers," Newell said.

AMD also is looking to mold graphics processors and separate accelerator units into its server offerings. Right now GPUs and accelerators are designed for specialist computing needs, but the company wants to build chips where all the architectural elements flawlessly work together, Newell said.