ARM VP To Keynote AMD Developer Conference 70
MojoKid writes "AMD is hosting its first AMD Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS) this summer, from June 13-16. The conference will focus on OpenCL and upcoming AMD Llano performance capabilities under various related usage models. One interesting twist is that the keynote address will be given by Jem Davies, currently ARM's VP of technology. To date, AMD's efforts to push OpenCL as a programming environment have been limited, particularly compared to the work NV has sunk into CUDA. With its profit margins and sales figures improving, AMD is apparently turning back to address the situation — and ARM's a natural ally. The attraction of OpenCL is that it can potentially be used to improve handheld device performance. AMD's explicit mention of ARM hints that there might be more than meets the eye to this conference as well."
Goodnite x86 (Score:0, Interesting)
This is the beginning of the end of an archaic architecture. We can finally see fair competition when it comes to silicon..
Re:Goodnite x86 (Score:3, Interesting)
It's beaten out other techs for a reason. ARM is not replacing x86 on the desktop any time soon, thank goodness. Maybe joining it, but not replacing it.
And what do you think this reason is?
Hint: it's not technical superiority.
Phillip.