On February 22nd, AMD officially announced the Xiaolong EPYC 3000 series for the embedded market, and the Ruilong Ryzen V1000 series, all based on the latest Zen CPU architecture. The latter also incorporates the Vega GPU graphics core to complete the Zen architecture. Full-scale layout.
For most ordinary users, the embedded market seems to be unfamiliar, but virtually all aspects of our lives are inseparable from embedded devices, but they are low-key only.
Recently, Scott Aylor, AMD’s Global Vice President and General Manager of Data Center and Embedded Solutions Division, deliberately explained the value of EPYC 3000 and Ryzen V1000 products.
In the past one or two years, AMD has had a very fast cycle in pushing new products. Many of them are centered around Zen's high-performance architecture, from desktop to notebook, mainstream to enthusiast, enterprise to data center, and then They combine with Vega-based GPUs to further enhance product features, performance, and expand into areas such as embedded.
Both the consumer-grade Ryzen Ryzen and the data center-class Xiaolong EPYC are very eye-catching. AMD naturally transfers these advantages to the embedded market, serves the existing market, and explores new markets, such as existing ones. The new vertical industry of embedded EPYC processors handles new workloads, including edge computing applications and other web-based applications.
So how does AMD compete in the embedded market? AMD believes that it has strong advantages and market positioning, especially the EPYC 3000 series, such as market-leading I/O capabilities, can provide good connectivity, GB-level connectivity and high-speed I/O, and a core number of Density, and RAS properties.
In terms of security, AMD has a secure root of trust, ensures that no malware runs after the processor is started, and has unique SME and SEV encryption capabilities to ensure the security of the hardware. After the virtual machine is processed through SEV, only The owner of the virtual machine can use it to ensure that it is not tampered with by others.
AMD also received a strong and robust ecosystem support. RedHat, Ubuntu, Mentor, WindRiver, Yocto and other professional systems and software, as well as some hypervisors (virtual machine hypervisors), all perfectly support EPYC.
In addition to the core performance enhancements, the Ruilong V1000 series also integrates the graphics core of the Vega architecture, which can be applied to a wider range of scenarios, such as local four 4K60 ultra high definition displays, H.265 codec, VP9 decoding, HDMI 2.0b , DP/eDP 1.4 and so on, can meet the higher demand for graphics, multimedia performance, and support for new embedded game engines, of course, SME, SEV and other security features are also supported.
In addition, in medical imaging, factory automation and other fields, Ryzen's high-definition display and multimedia processing capabilities are promising, while high reliability based on RAS, banking clients and other high-standard applications such as financial services, aviation and military, can also adopt Ryzen.
Ryzen's embedded ecosystem is also very complete. Windows and Linux platforms are well optimized.
Scott Aylor also answered some common concerns, such as digital currency. Although not the main purpose of embedded Ryzen and EPYC, with the improvement of CPU and GPU performance, computing power has been greatly improved, and users can fully apply their own needs. field.
For embedded, the most promising incremental market, Scott Aylor believes that the Ryzen V1000 series can strengthen the existing market layout in terms of client, gaming, medical imaging, factory automation and the Internet of Things. The EPYC 3000 series introduces some new competitive advantages. Ability to open up markets such as edge computing, networking, storage, etc.
In addition, in the face of demanding low-power IoT applications, AMD also provides targeted solutions. For example, 4-8 core thermal design power consumption can be as low as 30W, and the highest frequency can reach 3.1GHz. To better utilize the advantages of Zen architecture, power consumption is also at an appropriate level.
It is worth mentioning that, EPYC 3000 Series is AMD's First Embedded Product to Support Edge Computing Applications , Features, Core Performance, Power Management, I/O Leading capabilities are well suited for edge operations.
For example, virtual services, including network analysis, are very hot now. The EPYC 3000 series is very suitable for virtualization, SDN, NSD applications, and has already been applied and deployed.
Regarding AI, AMD has been focusing on training in machine learning and using the independent Radeon Instinct GPU series to achieve good performance. On the same software architecture, the Ryzen V1000 series is also very useful for machine learning reasoning applications. future.
