In recent days we have witnessed a serious activity in the field of AMD processors promote hybrid and specialized accelerators. In principle, it is legitimate. Without proper agitation industry can hardly understand that the hybrid processors for the future, although the company Intel is going to build in the kernel image processors, and AMD is not the only supporter of the idea. At one time AMD has spent a lot of forces on the move with 64 processors - bit extensions, and now they have become an integral part of the budget even Intel and AMD products. Now the task is more difficult - have to convince software developers to optimize their products not only under multi-processors, as such, but under the hybrid processors in particular.


The relevant statements made by Chuck Moore (Chuck Moore), a senior adviser to AMD, which since mid-December, has overseen the acceleration calculations. Some of his statements quoted site EE Times. It turns out that AMD is ready to establish some semblance of an open consortium, whose efforts will be directed at optimizing the software features of heterogeneous multicore processors. Ideally, programmers should get some kind of development environment that will allow workers to effectively create hybrid applications processors, while not requiring developers profound knowledge of the architecture of these processors.

AMD representative also said that in the future the company plans to introduce several different nuclear accelerators. The company Microsoft can become one of the partners in the initiative AMD to adapt programs to the characteristics of hybrid processors. Any interested companies can become a party to this initiative.

What's curious, until mid-December last year, Chuck Moore led processor generation Bulldozer, but then switched to move programmatic initiatives. He hinted that the development Bulldozer perfectly still and without his participation. This gives us hope for the emergence of data processors in the foreseeable future. However, the first hybrid processors from AMD, as we know, will use the kernel-generation processors Stars (Phenom), so Bulldozer announced by a no earlier in 2010.