AMD's not sitting still on their plans for updating their processor's architecture. Their lightweight profiling extensions would give applications real-time feedback on their performance, allowing the applications to shift resources when necessary.

"Lightweight profiling refers to real-time analysis a program does on its performance without incurring the performance hit of going through the operating system or driver software. By delivering processor performance information in a standard way to such processes, the software could, for example, more quickly shift data structures to reduce cache misses."