AMD to talk about its next-gen GPUs in June

Posted on Friday, April 08 2011 @ 0:57 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
X-bit Labs received word that AMD will talk about its future GPUs at the AMD Fusion Development Summit (AFDS) that takes place in mid-June.
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said that it would reveal some of the details about the company's next-generation graphics processing units (GPUs) at its AMD Fusion Development Summit (AFDS) that takes place in mid-June. In addition, AMD will reveal trends about future directions of accelerated processing units (APUs) and software development.

During his keynote at the AFDS, Eric Demers, Eric Demers, AMD corporate vice president and chief technology officer at graphics division of the company, will recap the evolution of GPUs in the recent years, including the latest VLIW5 and VLIW4 core architectures and instruction sets. But more importantly Mr. Demers will present an overview of the next generation of AMD cores under development, which will propel forward new capabilities and continue the GPU evolution.


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