The Piledriver CPU cores in AMD's upcoming Trinity APU will feature some special sauce courtesy of Cyclos Semiconductor, a company spun out of the University of Michigan in 2006. Cyclos' specialty? Resonant clock mesh technology that purportedly offers higher performance and lower power consumption.
According to this Cyclos whitepaper (PDF), performance can be improved by 5-10% using a clock mesh instead of the clock trees typically employed by microprocessors. This mesh distributes the clock ...
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