AMD与ARM终成盟友，异构系统架构基金会问世

在稍早前的 AMD Fusion 开发者高峰会 (AFDS)上，超微(AMD)和几家合作伙伴共同宣布成“异构系统架构基金会”(HSA Foundation)。该组织的创始会员包括AMD, ARM, Imagination 、联发科(MTK)以及德州仪器(TI)。 五家创始公司将共同努力推动一个单一架构规范，这将简化程序设计模式，从而协助软件开发人员更有效地利用最新中央处理器(CPU)和绘图处理器(GPU)的功能，继而充分发挥异构处理器中并行计算引擎的性能和能效。 AMD院士Phil Rogers是在周二(6月12日)的AMD开发者大会上宣布成立HSA基金会。

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异构处理器市场也称为混合处理器市场，估计市场规模达555亿美元，在以云端运算为主的数据管理、串流媒体和安全等领域别具意义。 “HSA基金会是一个非营利性的开放标准组织，旨在建构HSA平台，进而在未来为开发者提供架构和支持，”AMD院士Phil Rogers表示。 现 任HSA Foundation总裁的Rogers表示，AMD自去年起便开始筹组HSA组织，当这个组织成立时，也会真正开启Fusion系统架构世代，现在，我们也正努力在这个产业中建立完整的生态系统。“今天，我很高兴向大家宣布HSA正式成立的消息，”Rogers说。“我们将共享所有运算产业的未来发展。” HSA对所有运算产业中的半导体公司、平台和操作系统厂商、设备制造商、独立软件开发商、学术界和开放原始码开发者开放。该基金会希望提供开发工具、软件开发工具套件(SDK)、软件库、文件、培训和所有相关技术支持。 编译： Joy Teng 本文授权编译自EE Times，版权所有，谢绝转载 本文下一页：参考英文原文：AMD, ARM, Imagination, TI, MediaTek form HSA group ，by Peter Clarke, Dylan McGrath

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{pagination} AMD, ARM, Imagination, TI, MediaTek form HSA group Peter Clarke LONDON – Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and several collaborators have used the AMD Fusion Developer Summit being held in Bellevue, Washington, to announce the formation of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation. AMD, ARM, Imagination, MediaTek and Texas Instruments are the initial founding members of a non-profit consortium that has been established to define and promote an open, standards-based approach to heterogeneous computing that will provide a common hardware specification and support to make it easier for software developers to take multiprocessing advantage of modern complex processors. The development fits in with the announcement made at the same event one year ago that AMD's Fusion chip architecture would be agnostic to the types CPU and GPU cores used for its implementation (see Why AMD is opening up Fusion: CPU, GPU cores are the new gates). The five founding companies – which have expertise in x86 and ARM CPUs and PowerVR and Mali GPU cores amongst others – have pledged to work together to drive a single architecture specification that will simplify the programming model to help software developers take greater advantage of the capabilities found in the multiple CPU and GPU cores integrated in chips and unlock the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in heterogeneous processors. AMD Fellow Phil Rogers announces the HSA Foundation at the company's developer event in Bellevue, Wash., on Tuesday (June 12). The heterogeneous processor market, also known as the hybrid processor market, is reckoned to be worth $55.5 billion and has particular relevance in such areas as cloud-based data management, streaming, and security. "HSA Foundation is a non-profit, open standards body for HSA platforms that will own the develpment of the architecture going forward," AMD Corporate Fellow Phil Rogers told an audience at the AMD Fusion Developers Summit in Bellevue, Wash. Rogers, who is also now president of the HSA Foundation, said AMD made significant progress on HSA since last year, when it announced it would open up what was at the time known as Fusion System Architecture and try to build an industry-wide ecosystem around it. "Today, I am really pleased to report that HSA has become a reality," Rogers said. "It's now the shared industry's vision for the future of computing." The HSA is open to any and all computing industry professionals including semiconductor companies, platform and OS vendors, device manufacturers, independent software vendors, academia and open source developers. The foundation expects to deliver developer tools, software developer kits (SDKs), libraries, documentation, training and support. "We deliberatley structured it so it can be open fo everyone and everyone can find thier appropriate level of cause and effect," Rogers said.