February 2014, The Embedded computing marketplace is growing rapidly to cover just about every aspect of interaction with people and machines. At the meca for this new technology – Embedded World, this year held in Nuremburg, Germany; AMD introduced a new GPU for the embedded market. The rise of visual computing and advanced graphics UIs,…
November 13, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Dominic Mallinson from Sony Consumer Entertainment America highlighted the design decisions underlying the latest Sony Playstation. The new console offers better capabilities for the gamers and a new unified architecture for the developers to ease development. The PS 4 is designed to be simpler and easier to…
November 12, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Steve Borho from MulticoreWare detailed the developments on an H.265/HEVC video encoder project. This open source project will produce an encoder set that will eventually replace the H.264 encoders currently in place. The background for the encoders covers much of the video landscape. In video, quality matters,…
November 2013, in a briefing for the AMD Developers conference (APU 2013) they introduced their 3rd generation APU and its associated updated development environment to go with it. This third generation device once again incorporates Radeon GPUs with a multi-core CPU but now there is an optimized memory handler called the hUMA which allows the…
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA-Praveen Dongara from AMD described the changes and advances in the latest APU called Richland. This processor SoC addresses the needs for variable thermal profiles and performance in a client device. The performance in the CPU and GPU are improved through higher frequencies due to process improvements and…
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA—Dan Bouvier from AMD described the changes and improvements in the latest AMD APU, called Kabini. This chip is a full SoC with multiple cores and integrated functions. The latest chip is built in a 28nm process, fits into a 105 m2 die and contains 914M transistors. The…
October 29, 2012 – In San Francisco, AMD held a press conference announcing thier licensing of the ARM 64 bit core IP to be part of the Opteron product line. Planned to initial introduction in 2014, the ARM architecture is to be a supplemental tool in their server solution space. AMD x86 ARM Opteron Architecture…
March 19, 2012, Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Manju Hegde from AMD described the need for a new hardware-software co-design paradigm in the latest microprocessors. This change is driven by the academic ecosystem that produces 600 thousand programmers a year to feed an industry that is growing from 25 to 30 million people….
Sept 13, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – The Intel Developer Forum, as usual, brought a number of new technologies to the forefront. This year, more than usual, the technology had a major underlayer of challenges and goals for both the hardware and software community to realize the visions presented. The major announcements included the…