AMD Channel Update – Meet “Kaveri” & An APU13 Wrap-Up

Meet the Next Generation APU AMD's next generation APU (codenamed "Kaveri") features HSA, GCN architecture and up to four new multi-threaded AMD "Steamroller" x86 cores designed to:     • Expand computation efficiency     • Feed the cores faster     • Improve single-core execution APU13 Wrap-Up Our most successful developer conference yet, APU13 brought thousands of technology experts to San Jose to discuss, debate and immerse themselves in the latest tools, techniques and advancements in OpenCL™, C++AMP, OpenGL, Mantle and APUs. Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective reacted to the showing of Battlefield 4 powered by Kaveri by saying it, "Looked damn impressive and the frame rates were silky and smooth." Rik Myslewski at The Register says Kaveri is an, "Important milestone for AMD." With the CPU and GPU working in harmony on a single piece of silicon, Anton Shilov of X-Bit Labs noted that this will allow the processors to seamlessly move tasks between the best-suited processing elements without penalties. As Michelle Fitzsimmons of Tech Radar put it, HSA brings, "Parity to the processors." Exciting News for the HSA Foundation The Epicenter of Heterogeneous Computing. Oracle, Broadcom, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Huawei are among industry-leading organizations recently joining the HSA Foundation. Partner Resources ◢ Get to Know HSA ◢ AMD Partner Portal: Find helpful Sales Tools and Marketing Assets