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January 2012

Imagination Takes GPU Route to Heterogeneous Computing

Imagination Takes GPU Route to Heterogeneous Computing
Imagination Technologies says it is getting a handle on how space- and power-constrained mobile systems will leverage heterogeneous multicore processing. The U.K. IP licensor calls its approach "GPU compute".

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DrQuine

An elegant approach - use the CPU for serial computing and the GPU for parallel computing. Having both technologies in place covers all bases and saves energy.

1/14/2012 10:48 AM EST

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peter.clarke

Tony King-Smith and others at Imagination think so.

But I was also interested in the role of OS and platform (such as Android) as a gatekeeper to heterogeneous computing. One of the keys here is that the software continues to reside on the CPU and "calls" parallel routines that have been well-written for the GPU/VPU (or even RPU) as appropriate.

1/18/2012 10:52 AM EST

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