The most ambitious is “Hierofalcon,” a 64-bit ARM-based CPU and SoC designed specifically for communications and networking within a datacenter. Initial versions will include up to eight Cortex –A57 CPU cores running at speeds up to 2 GHz, with two channels for 64-bit DDR3/4 memory, a cryptographic co-processor for advanced encryption, and direct support for 10Gbit/sec Ethernet network connections and PCI-Express Gen 3 interconnects. AMD did not say whether Hierofalcon would include the Freedom Fabric high-speed multi-server interconnect AMD announced in July along with its “Seattle” SoC as part of its push beyond the PC market and into competition for datacenter servers, storage, networking and other devices. The newly announced Hierofalcon is basically the embedded version of Seattle, which is designed specifically as a server processor, according to Arun Iyengar, VP and general manager of AMD’s Embedded Solutions
