AMD, ARM team up to push Heterogeneous Systems Architecture

According to AMD, the HSA Foundation will as well be tasked with bringing development tools, libraries, and operating-system runtimes to market. It will promote the HSA architecture through developer training and academic programs, as so then. Through those activities, AMD hopes to make HSA "the platform of choice from smartphones to the cloud."

So far, AMD's contributions to the HSA Foundation include the draft HSA specs, an open-source execution stack and compiler, a standard template library, and initial funding. As we noted in February, AMD's roadmap calls for the progressive extension of the HSA standard with new features over the then couple of years.