AMD at its Fusion Developer Summit a notebook with Trinity apu is shown. According to the company is Trinity now 50 percent faster than the just released Llano and gpu architecture of the Radeon HD 6000-series.
AMD keeps in Bellevue, in the state of Washington, an event for developers to do the development for apu’s to stimulate. The company is a benefit if there is more gpgpu applications, because the power of the hybrid AMD chips with the gpu is located. AMD has just released its Llano-apus for the mainstream released, but on the Fusion Developer Summit, the company already has a notebook with the successor. The laptop with Trinity apu turned only a video, but AMD shows agree that the development of the chip is on track.
“Trinity is based on Bulldozer core. We have the silicon a few weeks ago in our labs to be tested and thus confirmed that the performance gains of 50 percent,” said Rick Bergman, vice-president of AMD. According to him, remains AMD with the objective for notebooks, by 2020, a computing power of 10 teraflops. The fastest Llano A8 apu offers according to AMD a computing power of 412 gigaflops. Trinity will be 32nm will be manufactured by Global Foundries and the gpu is on the vliw-4 architecture of the HD Radeon 6900-series based. This negates AMD according to PcPer rumors that Trinity, like Llano, on the vliw-5 architecture of the HD 5000-series features.
AMD wants of the apu’s have a unified processing element to the software developer. The company will therefore include support for C++to add functionality, the gpu as a parallel processor can use. Also need improvements in the sharing of memory by the cpu and gpu. At the Fusion event was also the vice-president of the technologieafdeling of ARM present, according to The Register to tell that ARM and AMD both have a future of heterogeneous computing, with all parts of a chip simply by developers.
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