HSA 1.1 Released
The HSA Foundation released version 1.1 of their specification, which focuses on “multi-vendor” compatibility. In this case, multi-vendor doesn't refer to companies that refused...
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AMD HSA Patches Hoping for GCC 6
Phoronix, the Linux-focused hardware website, highlighted patches for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that implement HSA. This will allow newer APUs, such as AMD's Carrizo, to accelerate chunks of code...
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Meet the Boltzmann Initiative, AMD’s answer to HPC
AMD has announced the Boltzmann Initiative to compete against Intel and NVIDIA in the HPC market this week at SC15. It is not a physical product but rather new a way…
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HSA Version 1.0 arrived today
We have been talking about the HSA foundation since 2013, a cooperative effort by AMD, ARM, Imagination, Samsung, Qualcomm, MediaTek and TI to design a heterogeneous memory architecture to allow GPUs,…
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AMD A10-7800 and A6-7400K Review: AMD Rounds Out the Kaveri Line
In the first several years of my PCPer employment, I typically handled most of the AMD CPU refreshes. These were rather standard affairs that involved small jumps in clockspeed…
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HSA on Linux
Open source HSA has arrived for the Linux kernel with a newly released set of patches which will allow Sea Islands and newer GPUs to share hardware resources. These patches are both…
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Fully Enabling the A10-7850K while Utilizing a Standalone GPU
When I first read many of the initial AMD A10 7850K reviews, my primary question was how would the APU act if there was a different GPU installed on the system and…
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AMD’s Bald Eagle; 4K casino games anyone?
AMD has just introduced their powerful new embedded chip called Bald Eagle. Depending on the model of processor you purchase you get two or four Steamroller CPU cores, and up to eight…
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Berlin invades San Francisco; meet the new HSA enabled Opteron
Next Wednesday we will get our first look at the HSA enabled Opteron X Series, otherwise known as Berlin. AMD will be unveiling the processor at the Red Hat Summit in San…
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AMD announces Garlic and Onion flavours on their first HSA chips
Not only are the first Kaveri reviews arriving today, the A10-7850K is up for sale on both NewEgg and Amazon and the A10-7700K is available on NewEgg. This new...
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AMD A8-7600 Kaveri APU Review – HSA Arrives
Kaveri: AMD’s New Flagship Processor How big is Kaveri? We already know the die size of it, but what kind of impact will it have on the marketplace? Has AMD…
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AMD CES 2014 Presentation: Kaveri Goes Official
This year’s AMD CES was actually more interesting than I was expecting. The details of the event were well known, as most Kaveri details have been revealed over the past few months. …
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Valve, Cloudius, and HSA Join Linux Foundation (Separately).
Valve may very well produce one of the near future's most popular non-mobile, consumer, Linux distributions. SteamOS will be marketed for gaming PCs (some...
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Video: Battlefield 4 Running on AMD A10 Kaveri APU and Image Decoder HSA Acceleration
Yesterday at the AMD APU13 developer conference, the company showed off the upcoming Kaveri APU running Battlefield 4 completely on the integrated graphics. I was able to push the AMD guys along…
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Podcast #266 – Corsair Air 540 Case, MSI GTX 780 Lightning, hUMA in the PS4, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #266 - 08/29/2013 Join us this week as we discuss the Corsair Air 540 Case, MSI GTX 780 Lightning, hUMA in the PS4, and more! You can subscribe to us…
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ASUS Shows Off FM2+ Motherboards Compatible With AMD Kaveri APUs
ASUS recently announced two new socket FM2+ motherboards that are compatible with AMD’s upcoming “Kaveri” Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). The new boards are the A88XMA and A55BM-A/USB3 and use the A88X and…
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AMD, HSA, LibreOffice and you
Need an excuse to give the 'boss' on why you need to buy a new AMD CPU or GPU? Check out The Register for a reason custom made for you; accelerated…
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Podcast #249 – Corsair 350D, Frame Rating in 4K, the Oculus Rift and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #249 - 05/02/2013 Join us this week as we discuss the Corsair 350D, Frame Rating in…
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