Friday, January 20th 2012
AMD Fusion System Architecture Evolves, Renamed to Heterogeneous
Introduced last summer at the Fusion11 Developer Summit, AMD's Fusion System Architecture (FSA) has now been renamed to Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA). According to AMD corporate fellow Phil Rogers, the new name is (more) 'representative of the entire, technical community that is leading the way in this very important area of technology and programming development.'
Naming change aside, AMD's solution remains the same and promotes the use of CPU and GPU cores in a unified way, so as to deliver high application performance and low power consumption.
The Heterogeneous Systems Architecture will have its own breakout session at AMD's Financial Analyst Day which is scheduled for February 2nd (the same day The Secret Circle returns with a new episode, coincidence?).
Despite dropping the 'Fusion' name from its computing platform, AMD has kept it for the Fusion12 Developer Summit that's to be held in Bellevue, Washington this June.
Naming change aside, AMD's solution remains the same and promotes the use of CPU and GPU cores in a unified way, so as to deliver high application performance and low power consumption.
The Heterogeneous Systems Architecture will have its own breakout session at AMD's Financial Analyst Day which is scheduled for February 2nd (the same day The Secret Circle returns with a new episode, coincidence?).
Despite dropping the 'Fusion' name from its computing platform, AMD has kept it for the Fusion12 Developer Summit that's to be held in Bellevue, Washington this June.
14 Comments on AMD Fusion System Architecture Evolves, Renamed to Heterogeneous
its like biologist summit than developer summit
At least they didn't get the people who name planets to decide what it should be called, I suppose.
I guess this is to try and help sell it to the server and compute markets, rather than the home user, who is unlikely to give a stuff what it actually means. Still, I thought Fusion was a nice name for it, maybe Heterogeneous suggests that, from a programming/use point of view, the CPU (APU) will be able to schedule work to the part of the APU that is best able to complete the work as fast as possible, without interaction from the programmer. Seems unlikely though.
Or boys?
Wait...is AMD a masculine or feminine company?
:D...couldn't resist that :D
Steroid bound muscle man? Tons of CPU power but a tiny GPU...:D
Pun intended.