AMD starts designing K9 architecture, seeks staff
And Newisys ups Opteron development
By Mike Magee: Saturday 27 July 2002, 08:35
THE K8 Hammer isn't out yet but AMD has started recruiting engineers for its next generation microprocessor, the K9, we can reveal.
And Newisys – which we revealed was close to AMD's Opteron design plans earlier this year – is also advertising a number of vacancies for what can only be Opteron designs.
The K9 jobs, all at Austin, are for analogue circuit design engineers, Circuit Design Engineers, and a digital circuit design engineer.
The last advertises for a senior level engineer to support custom circuit design for the K9 and its derivatives, and the successful application will work on microarchitecture definition, circuit specs, schematic entries, layouts, functional verification and a raf of other jobs.
Those designs are listed at the AMD page here.
Meanwhile, Newisys wants to recruit a stack of jobs including BIOS developers, diagnostic design, FPGA prototypes, and other posts. From the context it is clear these jobs refer to the Hammer Opteron family.
For example, the CISC processor is described as a scalable shared memory multiprocessor system built around industry standard processor nodes.
We believe such designs might well end up in IBM and maybe even Dell boxes eventually, giving Intel a headache eventually. µ
