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AMD Submits GPU OpenCL Implementation for Certification

Just a couple of days away from the rumored release of AMD's next-generation DirectX 11-capable GPUs, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker has announced today that it has submitted its OpenCL GPU implementation for certification by the Khronos Working Group. According to the chip maker, this brings its pro...

21 September 2009
04:11 GMT

AMD Delivers First OpenCL SDK for x86 CPUs

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has announced today the availability of a free OpenCL for CPU beta download, part of the company's ATI Stream SDK v2.0 Beta Program. According to the world's second largest chip maker, the newly released beta is meant to help programmers develop parallel so...

5 August 2009
03:09 GMT

Final Cut Pro Studio 3 Adding 1080p Editing On-The-Fly (Rumor)

Reports suggest that Apple has been hard at work on adding realtime editing of 1080p H.264 video in the next iteration of Final Cut Pro Studio. If the news is proved accurate, the software will undoubtedly leverage Apple's technology for using GPUs to perform traditionally CPU-intensive tasks – OpenCL. Ac...

28 May 2009
03:28 GMT

iPhone Chip Maker Intros Multi-Core CPU

Imagination Technologies, which makes the iPhone’s PowerVR MBX chip, has introduced a new GP-GPU multi-core mobile processor that sounds like a great candidate for the next generation iPhone, or an Apple tablet. The fresh chip (PowerVX SGX543) is designed to scale from two to sixteen cores without increasing pe...

19 March 2009
12:14 GMT

Snow Leopard Improvements Announced and That Should Be Added by Apple

Apple has already told everyone that it does not intend to deliver any new features in the Snow Leopard package, and although the new OS will focus mainly on performance enhancements, one should still wait for its launch. That is the thing to do if you are already using Leopard and you want to see how its bigger brot...

31 January 2009
05:01 GMT

NVIDIA Updates CUDA, Free Download Available

NVIDIA is reported to have recently released a fresh version of its CUDA platform, a technology known to benefit from the GPGPU capabilities of the company's graphics solutions. The release does not come with new features, but the SDK has been added support for Windows Vista, Red Hat Linux, as well as VisualStud...

22 December 2008
03:33 GMT

Phil Schiller to Showcase Snow Leopard at Macworld 2009, Sources Indicate

It is believed that Apple wants to introduce Snow Leopard before rival Microsoft launches its much anticipated Windows 7. Also coming as a rumor (although it's pretty obvious) is the news that Apple's Phil Schiller will be showcasing the new OS at the company's last Macworld appearance next month. UK ...

19 December 2008
04:50 GMT

Apple Seeks Trademark for Grand Central

Apple has filed a new application with the US Patent & Trademark Office for Grand Central, Apple's new technology used by Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to handle multiple processing cores. Snow Leopard is the latest iteration of the Mac OS, slated for release in the first half of 2009. Thanks to the eagle-eyed f...

11 December 2008
09:38 GMT

Apple-Proposed OpenCL Embraced by NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation, developer of graphics-processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices, has announced its full support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from the Khronos Group. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a new compute API that allows developers to tap into the...

10 December 2008
03:03 GMT

NVIDIA Also Adds OpenCL Support

It didn't take NVIDIA long to also announce its support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from Khronos Group, following the statement of earlier today from its competitor in Sunnyvale, California, AMD. The graphics chip maker has just announced its full support for OpenCL 1.0, a new compute API th...

9 December 2008
11:04 GMT

OpenCL 1.0 Specification Ready for Snow Leopard

The Khronos Group has announced the ratification and public release of the Apple-proposed OpenCL 1.0 - the open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices. The OpenCL standard was nearly completed in under six...

9 December 2008
04:37 GMT

Snow Leopard's OpenCL Almost Finished

An interview scored with Khronos Group has revealed that the makers of open standard, royalty-free APIs and their associated companies have achieved an incredible feat – nearly finished OpenCL for Snow Leopard in 6 months. Announced in June, the collaboration brought together industry leaders like AMD, NVIDIA, ...

20 November 2008
03:13 GMT

DirectX 11 Compatible GPUs from ATI Expected in 2009

Advanced Micro Devices graphics products group ATI announced at the CEATEC trade-show taking place in Japan that it expects to have DirectX 11-compatible GPUs available in 2009. Some voices on the Web say that this is a clear sign that the Sunnyvale company plans to release a new series of graphics cards, one that wi...

3 October 2008
06:08 GMT

OpenCL to Give Birth to the First Portable Supercomputer

Apple has revealed at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year that Snow Leopard packs a technology which allows the OS to use the processing power of graphics processors for apps that don't focus on graphics. Khronos Group president Neil Trevett claims Apple's OpenCL is paving the way to the f...

18 June 2008
10:08 GMT


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