From InfoWorld: AMD is moving closer to a motherboard design that will accept both x86 and ARM chips with the shipment of its first 64-bit ARM board.
The Opteron A1100-Series developer hardware is an uncased computer costing $2,999, and aimed at programmers who want to write applications and drivers for AMD's unreleased ARM servers, which are expected to become available by early next year.
This is the first ARM-based system released by AMD, which by 2016 hopes to ship servers in which x86 and ARM chips could coexist. The effort to unite x86 and ARM, called Project Skybridge, involves the development of a motherboard to which customers can attach chips based on either architecture.
AMD already sells PCs, tablets and server chips based on the x86 architecture, and is making ARM chips for servers and embedded products. With Skybridge, AMD hopes to bring x86 and ARM into one server and provide more flexibility to customers who want to switch between architectures.
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