Posted on Tuesday, April 26 2011 @ 22:56 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
X-bit Labs
reports Jem Davies, ARM vice president of technology, will deliver a keynote at AMD's Fusion Developer Summit, which takes pace from June 13 - 16, 2011 in Bellevue, Wa.
Jem Davies, the vice president of technology at processor designer ARM, will deliver a keynote at Advanced Micro Devices' Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS). The keynote will likely be dedicated to OpenCL, but it is noteworthy that the x86 company decided to invite the designer of competing ARM architecture to its summit.
Mr. Jem will deliver a keynote about ARM’s history of heterogeneous computing, its future strategy, and ARM’s support of standards, including OpenCL. Jem Davies is an ARM fellow and VP of technology for the media processing division at ARM, who is responsible for setting the technology roadmaps for ARM's media processing division including for graphics and video processor technologies. He is also responsible for advanced product development, technological investigations of acquisitions and member of ARM's CPU architecture review board (ARB) and is currently spearheading ARM’s heterogeneous computing strategy.
