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AMD CTO Predicts "Super Computer" Performance
(11/06/2006 9:42 PM EST)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Get ready for round two of the "attack of the killer micros," said Phil Hester, Advanced Micro Devices CTO, in a keynote speech at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) here Monday (Nov. 6). By combining graphics processing unit (GPU) and CPU functions in heterogeneous cores, Hester said, microprocessors will bring supercomputer performance to the desktop.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Get ready for round two of the "attack of the killer micros," said Phil Hester, Advanced Micro Devices CTO, in a keynote speech at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) here Monday (Nov. 6). By combining graphics processing unit (GPU) and CPU functions in heterogeneous cores, Hester said, microprocessors will bring supercomputer performance to the desktop.
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