AMD to Enter the Aerospace Industry with CoreAVI Avionics Technology

[btarunr]

In what promises to be AMD's most ambitious (and lucrative) semi-custom hardware deal to date, the company partnered with CoreAVI, a leading manufacturer of commercial jet avionics, to develop high-performance cockpit display modules that perform on-the-fly terrain mapping. The company is designing special variants of its Radeon embedded GPUs and APUs (as in accelerated processing units, not auxiliary power); which drive high-resolution cockpit displays with reliable levels of performance.

The company is tapping into its most proven GPU IP and the ubiquitous x86 CPU architecture to drive PFD (primary flight display) modules. AMD hardware's surplus-to-requirement processing power comes in handy in accelerating terrain mapping software on-the-fly. On the software side of things, AMD is tapping into open industry standards such as OpenGL, custom-built for mission-critical (safety-critical) applications. AMD isn't new to the CoreAVI product stack. The company has been supplying extended temperature-range variants of its Radeon embedded GPUs to the company for some time now.



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[P4-630]

Yeah AMD has to make money somehow....

 

[suraswami]

Yeah AMD has to make money somehow....

They could have built 'Space' heaters with their FX

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

What a boring pair of haters, yawn.

 

[Solidstate89]

I guess this is to 1) Expand their business into new areas they didn't used to cover while at the same time 2) avoiding nVidia who has moved into and quite quickly scooped up tons of contract wins in the automotive space.

 

[Deleted member 6693]

They could have built 'Space' heaters with their FX

Yeah ... like the GTX 480

 

[ZoneDymo]

How its lends them some good revenue

 

[Camm]

AMD's semi-custom program is an excellent way for AMD to diversify its offerings. Even Intel and Nvidia are struggling in the post discrete era atm if you look hard enough.

 

[Basard]

They could have built 'Space' heaters with their FX

Market it as a "Smart" heater! Run F@H while you heat your bedroom!

 

[Caring1]

This type of technology might lend itself to autonomous vehicles.
Having the computational power to map terrain might not be a bad move if vehicles are to be aware of their surroundings.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Market it as a "Smart" heater! Run F@H while you heat your bedroom!

If only the world would wake up to such a great idea and join me doing that instead of sending more current through a wire to heat their room. Cancer might get beat quicker ,,for 4-600 watts my rooms never cold
I could get a 1kw fan heater to be less efficient I suppose ,,,,,not.

 

[Jism]

Airplanes, Boats, all sort of stuff. Everything needs to go digital and AMD is understanding the current and future trend. It's good for AMD, pack and maintain a large business as possible.

It's not about consumers in the first place. Here and the medical / automotive / gambling / etc is where the money is.