AMD Hires Away Nvidia's CUDA Guy
AMD grabs some talent from Nvidia.
Earlier this week, AMD announced that it has hired Manju Hegde as corporate vice president, Fusion Experience Program. Hegde previously served as vice president of CUDA Technical Marketing at Nvidia, and before that was chief executive officer and co-founder of AGEIA Technologies Inc., known for the PhysX technology.
"We are thrilled to be able to attract an experienced industry leader like Manju Hegde to the AMD team, a sign of the quality of talent we are able to attract to AMD on the strength of our Fusion roadmap," said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Products Group. "Manju brings prized expertise in developing the ecosystem for enabling breakthrough and heightened experiences on new architectures to AMD. As Manju and his team work with the ecosystem to usher in a new era of visual computing, we expect a wide range of industry leaders to embrace the future of accelerated computing through the combination of the GPU and CPU -- a combination only AMD can deliver with its AMD Fusion technology."
Hegde will lead the AMD Fusion Experience Program, an initiative focused on "identifying innovative computing solutions and applications poised to take full advantage of the forthcoming AMD Fusion family of Accelerated Processing Units (APU)."
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Fusion will be 30% more faster than current computers, no matter which way you use it.
Fusion will be 30% more faster than current computers, no matter which way you use it.
Underwater?
Fusion will be 30% more faster than current computers, no matter which way you use it.
i hope so, i really want to see AMD bring out something that takes intel off the top spot, i always like to see the underdog come out on top plus it drives innovation i mean intel pulled out the core architecture after AMD was hammering them after the powerhouse that was pentium 4
This had better not be another K8.
In GPU computing, in the context of scientific computing, AMD has seriously lagged. There is little other than a minor subset of BLAS level 1 linear algebra routines/libraries. In scientific computing, Linear Algebra is EVERYTHING. NVidia has motivated several developments of such, i.e. www.culatools.com . What is the matter with AMD? AMD has lagged and may have lost. In terms of hardware with their 92XX series Stream Processors AMD has "had" a hardware victory, had until Fermi. AMD Leadership in the area of scientific GPU computing has lagged and I think it has lost to NVidia. This is evidenced by the Linear Algebra libraries that are current and forethcoming for NVidia Fermi. At some point hardware is useless and software is EVERYTHING. It is too LATE AMD. AMD should focus on the GAME INDUSTRY and quit teasing the serions numerical analysts/scientists with these politico-economic gestures. It is too late. Your stream processors have been abandoned by all those except the "Folders". The best alternative is to develope a Linear Algebra Engine in Hardware. AMD is very good at hardware, second to Intel is the CPU arena. But, too late to become competitive in Linear Algebra software. AMCL sucks and is useless compared to Intel MKL and CUDA software Linear Algebra libraries.