Intel not joining graphics chip alliance
Intel will not join a chip-related alliance aimed at making it easier for software developers to take advantage of the compute power locked up in graphics silicon.
Advanced Micro Devices, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek Inc., and Texas Instruments announced the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation on Tuesday. Here's how Lisa Su, an AMD senior vice president, described it in a phone interview with CNET.
"The point is, even if you put a really powerful CPU next to a really powerful GPU, if these [chips] don't interact and the applications don't know when it's better to operate on the graphics side and when is it better to operate on the CPU side, you're not taking advantage of all that compute horsepower," she said, referring to the central processing unit and graphics processing unit.
