Five percent of Tesla Motors has just been purchased by Tencent Holdings Limited. For our audience, this could be interesting in two ways. First, Tesla Motors is currently home to Jim Keller, who designed several CPUs architectures at AMD and Apple, including AMD’s K8, Apple’s A4 and A5, and AMD’s recent Zen. Second, Tencent has been purchasing minority chunks of several companies, including almost half of Epic Games, five percent of Activision Blizzard, and a few others, but the move into automotive technologies is somewhat new for them.
From Tesla’s perspective, Tencent could be strong leverage into the Chinese market. In fact, Elon Musk tweeted to Bloomberg Business that they are glad to have Tencent “as an investor and advisor”. Clearly, this means that they consider Tencent to be, in some fashion, an adviser for the company.
Personally, I’m curious how Tencent will affect the energy side of the company, including their subsidiary, SolarCity. I don’t really have anything to base this on, since it’s just as “out of left field” for Tencent as automotive technologies, but it’s something I’ll be occasionally glancing at none-the-less.
It is Ryzen, not Zen. Get
It is Ryzen, not Zen. Get some clues or learn how to use Google before writing a masterpiece (aka copy/pasting poorly ars technica).And who cares about your two cents at the end? If you knew anything relevant, you would be working for a decent company and not just commenting on what is going on. Anyone can do that.
No Scott is correct Ryzen is
No Scott is correct Ryzen is just the consumer branding for the consumer line of CPUs/APUs that use the Zen microarchitecture. Zen/Naples is using the 4 of the Very Same AMD “Zeppelin” dual CCX unit(8 cores) dies that is used for AMD’s Ryzen consumer(1 Zepplin die) brand. That Zepplin Die is the modular unit that AMD is currently using for all of its consumer(Ryzen, 7, 5, 3 SKUs) and Server(Naples/Opteron) or Naples/New server branding(If AMD’s decides not to ues the Opteron name anymore). Now the Raven Ridge APU’s that make use of any Zen microarchitecture based cores will maybe be a little different as they will not make use of the Zeppelin die but most likely be using some 2 and 4 Zen core configurations that are somewhat different than the Zeppelin die modular unit.
Zen is that name of Keller’s/Team’s x86 microarchitecture that will be used across all of AMD’s new x86 based products. And Bot AMD and Intel have consumer abd server branding for their lines of respective x86 ISA running custom microarchitecture designs that are engineered to run the x86 32/64 bit ISA.
Do you Know that Jim Keller/his K12 team also completed an ARMv8A ISA running custom microarchitecture(K12) at the very same time frame that the Zen custom x86 iS running microarchitecture was developed. So Expect that K12 will be very similar if not wider order superscalar than even Zen, except that K12 will be engineered to run the ARMv8A ISA. And if for K12 AMD decides to make use of the new ARM Holdings SVE(scalable vector extensions) to the ARMv8A ISA, well that’s some large FP math from 128 to 2,048 bits for FP number crunching.
edit: Bot AMD and Intel have
edit: Bot AMD and Intel have consumer abd server branding
to: Both AMD and Intel have consumer and server branding
Fat fingers and bad proof reading, + terrible spelling.
Edit: Zen custom x86 iS
Edit: Zen custom x86 iS running
to: Zen custom x86 ISA running
bad day it is, just crappy proof reading!
Based on this and other
Based on this and other comments, you really don't like me for some reason. _(ツ)_/
If you would like to discuss this further, then, please, drop me an email (smichaud@pcper.com). As for calling it Zen? I also called it "K8" instead of "Athlon 64". It was an intentional choice of words.
Tencent is very much like
Tencent is very much like SoftBank and you can find both of these Tech/Investment capitol companies doing up investment fund deals similar to this Tesla investment deal. They bote do besiness with each other and alone or with other groups of investors.
“Tencent Holdings Limited (Chinese: 腾讯控股有限公司; pinyin: Téngxùn Kònggǔ Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī; literally: “Soaring information”; SEHK: 700) is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, payment systems, internet and mobile phone value-added services and operate online advertising services in China.[3] Its headquarters are in Nanshan District, Shenzhen.
Tencent is one of the largest Internet companies, as well as the largest gaming company in the world,[4] many services of whose include social network, web portals, e-commerce, mobile games and multiplayer online games.[5] Its offerings in China include the well-known instant messenger Tencent QQ and one of the largest web portals, QQ.com.[6] Mobile chat service WeChat has helped bolster Tencent’s continued expansion into smartphone services. Tencent holds 15% stake of JD.com, one of the largest B2C online retailers in China.
In April 13, 2015, the market value of Tencent exceeded US$200 billion for the first time, hitting US$206 billion.[7] On September 8, 2015, Tencent became the largest Internet company in Asia by value after Alibaba Group Holding Limited suffered a major drop ($141 billion over 10 months) in its share value.[8]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent