Items tagged with HSA

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Mar 17, 2015

HSA Foundation And AMD Hit 1.0 Release Milestone For Efficient Heterogeneous System Architecture

The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation is making waves this week with the announcement of the HSA Specification v1.0. The HSA 1.0 spec is aimed at ushering in a new wave of heterogeneous computing devices that efficiently harness the power of both CPUs and GPUs. HSA is not only destined to impact... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Nov 21, 2014

AMD Updates Carrizo APU Roadmap, Announces New Mantle, FreeSync Partners

AMD's Future of Compute event was this week and the company has made a number of announcements regarding new technology and the future of its HSA, Mantle, and FreeSync projects. First up, there's Carrizo, AMD's upcoming follow-on to Kaveri and the first chip to use its "Excavator" CPU cores. AMD is projecting that... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Jan 28, 2014

AMD Announces Sampling Of Eight-Core ARM 'Seattle' Processor At Facebook's Open Compute Summit

AMD's Andrew Feldman announced today that the company is preparing to sample its new eight-core ARM SoC (codename: Seattle). Feldman gave a keynote presentation at the fifth annual Open Compute Summit. The Open Compute Project (OCP) is Facebook's effort to decentralize and unpack the datacenter, breaking the... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Sun, Jan 19, 2014

Kaveri Software Documentation Shows AMD Considered GDDR5, Might Release Eight-Core Variant

Of all the rumors that swirled around Kaveri before the APU debuted last week, one of the more interesting bits was that AMD might debut GDDR5 as a desktop option. GDDR5 isn't bonded in sticks for easy motherboard socketing, and motherboard OEMs were unlikely to be interested in paying to solder 4-8GB of RAM directly... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Oct 22, 2013

How AMD's HSA Queuing Technology Simplifies GPU Acceleration

One of the greatest problems standing between companies like AMD and widespread adoption of the GPU as a mainstream accelerator is that it's extremely difficult to effectively leverage the GPU. Even after years of development poured into CUDA, OpenCL, and yes, HSA, the barriers between CPU and GPU have remained... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Fri, Aug 31, 2012

Samsung Joins The HSA Foundation, Your Next Galaxy with AMD Inside?

Earlier this summer, AMD launched its HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) foundation with a number of core partners. Now Samsung has joined the collaborative effort as well. This could be the beginning of an unprecedented level of cooperation between the APU designer and massive smartphone/tablet developer. The... Read more...